Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number needed for the job may be 1,000, or 1,500, or more. The weapons are at hand. But D-day is, too. The final test of air power will not come in this...
...first test came on picking a keynoter. Boss Butler's choice was onetime Governor Dan Moody, who waited outside the chamber nervously chewing a cigar. (When a friend gave him a congratulatory slap on the back, Dan Moody accidentally swallowed the butt, rushed to the drugstore for sodium bicarbonate.) Up rose Alvin J. Wirtz, red-hot Fourth Termer, to propose the name of onetime Governor James V. Allred. His voice was barely heard above the shouting. When the vote came, anti-Fourth Termers had won, 940-to-774. On a second vote, to pledge Texas electors absolutely to vote...
...would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
...history. This is hotly disputed by admirers of Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
Thanks to the radio and phonograph, most schoolboys know the words to the current popular songs. But how many schoolboys know the Bible? A quiz probing into this question recently fascinated parents on Philadelphia's suburban Main Line. Haverford School's Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus tested 252 boys (13-to 18-year-olds) on quotations from song hits and from the Bible. The test...