Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great silvery plane rolled out of Boeing's plant at Renton, Wash, last week for its first secret test flight. Elliott Merrill, Boeing's crack test pilot, revved up the plane's four 2,200-h.p. motors till the earth trembled. Then the 130,000-lb. plane skimmed along the runway, lifted easily into the air. An hour later Pilot Merrill grinned: "She handles easier than...
...Council also announced this week that it wholeheartedly endorses the U.S.A.F.I. test plan which Dean Hanford has proposed to the student body. All students enrolled in the College have been asked to take a series of tests which will be given to servicemen as they are mustered out. The scores on these examinations will be used to establish a norm for veterans who are candidates for admission to Harvard. The times have already been set, and the locations will be announced later in the SERVICE NEWS...
...trained and led, was the fighting equal of any other nation's soldier. He was sure that he could create a striking force with Chinese manpower and U.S. weapons that would drive the Japanese from China. After Pearl Harbor, he got the beginning of a slim chance to test this belief...
...Miles Down. With this device Ewing got several pictures at 2,700 fathoms (about three miles), but this camera and an improved second model were eventually lost, probably crushed by the great pressure. Since then Ewing has built a camera encased in thick pyrex glass, shaped like a giant test tube. All told, he has more than 1,000 pictures of the ocean floor, from Florida to far out in the Atlantic...
...wired the magazine, asking whether she was available. The answer came fast, on the Hawks's doorstep, in person. In May 1943 Miss Bacall signed a contract with Hawks; this was shared by Jack Warner as soon as he saw her screen test, a bit of Claudia. The test alone is proof of her abilities; for Lauren Bacall (as I seen in To Have and Have Not) to make even a mediocre stab at such a role is like Tom Dewey's successfully impersonating Lincoln...