Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this mujik was now a first-rate soldier. In the ruins of Stalingrad he acquired confidence and knowledge. At Kursk, he put the knowledge to its harshest test ("Myi Stalingradtsi," these men boasted, "We're from Stalingrad. We chased them"). The veterans of these two battles became the backbone of every active army...
...years Frank C. Walker's Post Office Department has had a perfect batting average against magazines it cited, or simply scanned, as obscene: 23 cited; 39 put to the purity test; 62 second-class mail (cheaper rate) privileges revoked or denied. Last week sharp-nosed Postmaster General Walker, setting himself up as the No. 1 judge of what the U.S. public should read and of what it should be denied, personally turned thumbs down on Esquire...
...wants to go home as soon as possible, the U.S. soldier wants to be sure that the ugly job he must do is competently handled. Under General Marshall, he knows it is; and this is why the U.S. soldier, in action, has proved utterly dependable and determined-the ultimate test of morale. Before & after the battle the U.S. soldier will proudly remain the world's champion grouser-he will beef handsomely even at the Victory Parade...
Charles Chaplin had another protégée. Dark, blue-eyed Alice Ealand, ex-model, said he had offered to star her in his next picture. Six months after his marriage to 18-year-old Oona O'Neill (his fourth), six weeks before the blood test which can clear him of ex-Protégée Joan Barry's paternity charge, Chaplin announced his next picture's subject. He will do the story of Bluebeard, with an "amusing angle." Miss Ealand, newcomer to Hollywood, said she would appear as the wife whom Bluebeard-Chaplin does...
...Skins. Dr. Sano grafted skin on rats' chests or the napes of their necks, the areas that move the most. She first removed a small piece of skin from the test area and waited four days for healing to start. For grafting, she used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...