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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...package delivered was not the one Perón planned (the Cabinet refused to approve an outright 25% share in net profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten Perón's claims that all but he were foes of labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Up Pay; Up Peron | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...madmen who are itching to exterminate life on earth in order to prove their theories. The possibility of an uncontrollable, disastrous chain reaction has been carefully considered, and there is no known or foreseeable way of starting one. Furthermore, your statement that Dr. Fermi bet that the New Mexico test would end in worldwide disaster is completely false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Through the Manhattan office doors that hide some of the shapeliest forms in the U.S. last week scurried a Columbia psychologist, eager to test the brain power of Harry Conover's cover girls. It was a heady experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Handsome Does | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Conover models scored an average Otis I.Q. of 109.2-just as high as 2,500 college students given the same test. Brightest of all was Kit Carson, 20, (real name: Patricia Louise Carlson) who spent one year at the University of Minnesota. Height: 5 ft. 7½ in.; weight: 120 Ibs.; I.Q.: 125. Telephone number: Murray Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Handsome Does | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Last week, after an eight-month test (30 planeloads), Cocky Myers reported back to the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association what he had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fustest with the Freshest | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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