Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varsity basketball practice will resume this afternoon when Coach Floyd Stahl sends his courtmen onto the floor in an attempt to whip the Crimson into shape for its stiffest test to date, an encounter with Brown next Wednesday night in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Last week came what looked like the biggest strike yet. Out in the sweeping range lands west of Calgary, within sight of the Rockies, a Shell Oil Co. test drill ing crew ran into a terrific gas concentration (a sign...
...well was only a few miles from the site of an earlier test, where a Shell crew had drilled down to a record-shattering 12,056 ft. and spent $600,000 without striking oil. But oilmen were sure they had something this time. In Ottawa, Dominion geologists admitted cautiously: the Jumping Pound strike is "extremely important." In Alberta, the Shell Co. had already grabbed up drilling and royalty rights on a reported 73,000 acres near Jumping Pound. Other firms, U.S. and Canadian, were pouncing on whatever they could...
...Rosalia Mercurio Di Maqgio, 66, plump, Italian-born mother of Baseballers Joe, Vince and Dominic Di Maggio, two other sons, four daughters, passed her naturalization test in San Francisco's Superior Court with flying colors, became a U.S. citizen. Papa Joseph Di Maggio Sr., 72, flunked his, was told he could try again...
...Enid, Okla. (pop. 28,081), a smart grain dealer, Dale H. Johnson, bought mung seeds, begged the skeptical farmers in Garfield County near the Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...