Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Itchy Fingers. When the scientists gathered in New Mexico to test the first atomic bomb, they weren't entirely sure just what would happen. A few suspected that the nuclear chain reaction might spread from the bomb's uranium, flash around the world in the air and burn every living thing to a crisp. One enthusiastic physicist, famed Enrico Fermi, casually offered to bet his associates 10-to-1 that it would. He got no takers...
...possible results of a penultimate test, see BOOKS...
...Ignored by the daily press, consistently under-rated by every so-called expert throughout the nation, labeled "informals" by sportswriter after witty sportswriter, Coach Harlow's 1945 squad has had to prove itself over and over during the season; tomorrow's encounter will be the final and conclusive test...
...view was somewhat like that of London's cartoonist David Low, who sardonically depicted Attlee and two of his adjutants calling the tune for Public Ownership's dance with Private Enterprise (see cut). But Congress recognized Attlee's good will, applauded him generously. A truer test would come when Congress voted on the projected U.S. loan to Britain...
...Reported the hastily proofread New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The state chemist . . . reported traces of ephedrine in the saliva test taken from Mrs. Elizabeth [Arden] Graham." In fact, Magnific Duel's saliva test was negative...