Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur's father, a keen Australian cricketer with flowing blond mustaches, walked out on his team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often...
...spite of Surgeon General Thomas Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...
Says coach Jaako Mikkola, "there is no other sport which can be compared with cross country as far as physical benefits are concerned. Cross country men rank highest in the University in the annual step test...
...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
...Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half). Spunky, birdlike, greying Miss Edna pressed her associate editor Beth Williams ("Sister Bessie") Powers and her cook Lilly into composing-room service (see cut) when Frank went to Atlanta for his Army physical test. But if Frank goes for good, she warns Quitman that the Free Press may go the way of the 1,000-odd U.S. rural weeklies that have folded up, for lack of manpower and other reasons, since Pearl Harbor...