Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the team expects to specialize in the downhill and slalom events, jumpers and cross-country men are needed to round out the roster. The first real test will come with the Lake Placid Carnival in the latter part of December...
...shall do my best to successfully complete the prescribed course. . . . In 100 years of service to the American people the Academy has not produced one Negro graduate." Midshipman Brown, not the first to try, has had high marks, has made one of the highest in the German Placement Test. He rooms alone...
...longest nonstop flight in U.S. Army history.* At Chicago they refueled and went on to Washington. Time for the 5,995-mile nonstop flight to Chicago: 25 hours, 43 minutes, an average speed of about 286 m.p.h. Said Lieut. General Barney Giles, commanding the flight: "This was a practical test, not a stunt." He added that planes soon will be flying back and forth without trouble all the time...
...Subtilin, an extract of the bacillus sub-tilis (the hay bacillus found in every open field) will kill tubercle bacilli in test tubes. This announcement, by the University of California's Dr. Anthony J. Salle, may mean very little. Test-tube results are only a preliminary step and subtilin has a long way to go to prove itself; like many another potential "cure," it may be no good in the human body...
What worries the experts most is the layman's tendency to pin hope on every test-tube success. But doctors continue to write up their results and risk the dangers of publicity because any test may give the clue some other worker needs...