Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More urbane was the guy who resented the coat and tie rule at the Union. He made a test case of it. He wore a coat, and he wore a tie, but he left his pants at home, and no one batted...
...most successful article is one written in the manner of Potter's gamesmanship-or How to Win Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There...
...White Sands, N. Mex. last month, a test Viking climbed only 51^ miles and landed ten miles away. But this first trial flight was intended to test the controls and propulsion unit, not to try for an altitude record. The Viking's designers claim that the new rocket, as produced at present, will reach something like 190 miles. An improved model, now in preparation, may reach 225 miles...
Quick's 20,000-copy test run went on sale on newsstands in eight cities from Philadelphia to Tacoma-but not in Manhattan, where Editor & Publisher Cowles had dreamed it up. With Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy...
...minute, was about to go on sale in Manhattan, and R. H. Macy & Co. had wangled a month's exclusive department-store rights. At its wit's end, Gimbels stealthily bought up a stock of the cameras from out-of-town stores where Polaroid was running test sales, and put in a classy window display. But as soon as Gimbels put the cameras on sale (at $89.75), Macy's sent a flying squad of shoppers across the street and bought out most of Gimbels' stock. As Gimbels hastily took out its window display, Macy...