Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters from Tatty and Sally Bagby helped Mrs. Spaatz to fill in the picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
...Government to thank. Its recent pressure, reluctantly seconded by Britain, against Eire's neutrality had simply made Eire's Irishmen more devoted to their own belligerent neutrality than ever. Eamon de Valera symbolized neutrality and Eire's independence, hauled in the votes when the test came...
...World War II a Geigy chemist, Paul Muller, rediscovered the formula and found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
...children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never be allowed...
...evidence was that he was not drunk. The defense's contention was that he was insane. Army psychiatrists, making a belated test of the young officer, ruled that he was not; the court-martial accepted their findings. After that Swancutt, father of two children, had no chance, beyond the possibility that somewhere in the process of review his sentence might be commuted...