Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test tubes, streptomycin has destroyed the bacilli of tuberculosis and leprosy, the bacterium of tularemia. It has saved mice from dying of salmonella infections. Tested on human beings for toxicity, it has proved not dangerous...
...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...Wright Field, where one model is already at work, the robot sits in a cold chamber wearing test garments. Researchers, in a warm adjoining room, read its reactions by means of instruments. With the Copper Man as a guinea pig, they have developed lightweight, electrically warmed suits in which a human being can be comfortable at temperatures ranging from 60° below zero to 60° above...
Fearful of flunking a test at school that day, Ronald had figured out a new way to play hooky. His theory: "I thought Pa would be so sorry for me he'd forget about me failing...
...Most of the interest in the recently banned books," he commented, "has been stimulated because they are 'verboten,' not because of any lust which they might promote. So far as youth is concerned, the test is a simple one: there are certain types of literature which on their face are revealed as lewd and disgusting productions. About these there can be no question. But these types are rarely found in bookstores, their distribution being handled largely by underworld characters...