Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 7]: "Says the latest Journal of Aviation Medicine: People who get airsick may be able to avoid it by taking in advance a small dose of the drug hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, the so-called 'truth' drug often used as a sedative. In a Navy test of cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal...
...scholarship (good at any approved college, and worth roughly $ 1,000 a year), a candidate would apply to his school principal, take an aptitude test, be passed on finally by a State selection committee. After graduation, all scholars would be enrolled in a "National Science Reserve," on call for national emergencies such...
This week final U.S. action was in sight. The-House had already passed a Bretton Woods bill; now the Senate had taken it up. Ahead was a test of two great issues: 1) could international cooperation of a very difficult kind be translated from oratory into practice? 2) could world trade be returned to free enterprise...
...minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
...first compulsory civilian mass attack on syphilis in history, the city had blood-tested, tagged and treated virtually every infected citizen. A unique state law requires every Alabamian between 14 and 50 to take a Wassermann-like test. After some trial runs in a few small rural counties, health officers two months ago started the big test in Jefferson County...