Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the Stassen Presidential boom? Instead, good Navy-man Stassen had talked only of other things. Principally, he wanted to know every linguistic gem of 2-year-old Kathleen Stassen, who is launching timidly into speech. Presumably, however, he had ways to know that the first big test of his candidacy was coming up and that the news was not too hopeful...
...forests west of Moscow, in December 1941, the first big test came. By this time Voronov had already amassed a reserve-three field guns to the enemy's two; two mortars to the enemy's one. The road to Moscow lay clear before Hitler, save for a mob of armed Moscow workers and Voronov's guns. The workers fought, and died. Voronov's guns sent Hitler's armies reeling back...
Yugoslavia's youthful Peter II turned up in London last week, summoned by a commoner, to test his chances of remaining king. He came in style and in haste, in Winston Churchill's private plane, and with him he brought his worried Premier, Bozhida Purich. His fiancée, Princess Alexandra of Greece, met him at the airport, whisked him up to London by car. Gossips said a wedding was on Peter's London schedule. Alexandra's uncle, King George of Greece, had also run up from Cairo to London last week, perhaps also summoned...
...Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five and two years, respectively, under the Mann...
...Sample test question: "There are four embryonic membranes in vertebrates-the yoke sac, the allantois, the amnion and the chlorion. The amnion and chlorion are formed by a fold of the somatopleure. . . . " Problem: to locate these on a diagram...