Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super imposed on what is fundamentally a two-party system. He would hear reports: Judge Goldstein had been put up to draw the Jewish vote away from the Democrats. . . . Bill O'Dwyer would lose Catholic votes because of his A.L.P. tie-up. . . . Actually the election was just a test of Tom Dewey's ability to get re-elected in 1946. . . . Or it was just a test of Harry Truman's strength in New York...
...clock to noon. Reading test, New Lecture Hall...
...Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, military and scientific parents of the atom bomb, parried all questions about the bomb itself. But about its aftereffects they were anxious to talk. Data on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not be complete until scientists now on the spot have finished their tests. But all three atomic explosions, said General Groves, were "comparable" in power. Important difference was that New Mexico's test bomb went off only 100 ft. above ground, those in Japan "much higher." Hence the effects of their blast, heat and radiation were spread much thinner, their radioactivity dissipated more...
...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...once feared he would have to shut up shop when peace came, had done just that with some plants. But he was still in production. Last week, he wheeled out of his Long Beach, Calif., hangar the biggest commercial land plane in the world and gave it a test flight. It is the Globemaster, a military version of the Douglas DC-7, a 77-ton giant in which he expects to carry 108 passengers around the world at 300 m.p.h. with only two necessary stops on the way (see cut). In his pocket he already has Army orders...