Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the War Labor Board, which ordered the striking musicians to return to work, nor American Federation of Labor President William Green, who repudiated the strike, could move cocky, stocky Caesar Petrillo. The case was a test of his policy of establishing his own quotas of musicians for individual radio stations. Caesar won the test...
...bill lay in the Rules Committee for five days, was finally shoehorned out onto the floor by Speaker Sam Rayburn. It squeaked through its first test (a resolution to make the bill in order) by ten votes (202-to-192). The anti-Wallace men tried again: a motion to recommit the bill. It was beaten by eight votes (204-to-196), and the opposition folded. House Republicans, who regard Wallace as an economic madman or worse, and Southern Democrats, who feel the same way, then joined the pro-Wallace-men. The George bill was passed...
Whose Trust? In Europe, where the first test must come, first reactions were not promising. At best, the Poles were uneasy; at worst, certain that they had been sold out. But the selling out of the Poles had actually occurred many months ago. In the first days after Yalta, the major test of the Yalta doctrine was France...
...upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch of the baby's skin proved he was right: the child was allergic to the hair lacquer its mother used to keep her hair sleekly stiff. Within a week after the mother began to let hair lacquer alone, the baby's skin was perfectly...
...pioneer in physical education and one of the top authorities in the country on that subject, be developed a new type of athletic program here after the last war, and more recently introduced the now-famous Harvard Step Test, which is widely used today in service camps...