Word: tested
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Scrapping. The Security Council meets in Church House just behind Westminster Abbey. There the test came last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain...
...filled with Japs who have small tufts of hair beginning to grow back on their slick pates. Temporary baldness is one symptom of radiation injury. A variation of the injury was discovered among a herd of red cattle grazing some 50 miles from last summer's test bombing in New Mexico. Radioactive dust settled on their backs, turned the red hair white in small splotches...
Harvard's Astronomer Fred L. Whipple thought Diana might provide a test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo...
Sofar's range is one of its most startling features: a test bomb dropped at Dakar was heard in the Bahamas, 3,100 miles away...
...Reading test, New Lecture Hall. Required of all new students...