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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because political observers rate the General's chances as dim, the New Deal high command seemed reluctant to go all out on a test case against Dewey. At week's end the General was still waiting for the mighty shove from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General and Holy Joe | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Startled motorists in Darien, Conn. buzzed along the first steel roadway last week. It was a test strip of steel grid, like the landing mats that surface emergency military airfields. The builders believed they were pioneering the highway of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steel Highway | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Four Crimson eights will risk Harvard's three-year undefeated crew record tomorrow when the Haines oarsmen get their first test this season in an informal race against M. I. T. over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance in the Charles Basin. With the Freshman boat starting the first race at 3:30 o'clock, the J. V.'s, 150's, and Varsity will come up to the line at 30-minute intervals. Navy who was originally scheduled to race tomorrow, cancelled its entries because of transportation difficulties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Crimson Crews to Face M. I. T. Tomorrow on Charles | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...angle, or position, block is designed to get the most thorough block from the least power by hitting the would-be tackler from some sort of an angle, and with any one of a dozen different types of blocks. None of this push-and-pull strength test stuff. The Harlow system is scientific...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

Next, Jesse A. Blevans, North American Aviation test pilot, drew a six-month suspension from CAB for flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber within 150 feet of a TWA plane near Adrian, Tex. Blevans, who had no previous incidents charged against him, admitted his error .in cutting in front of the transport, which was rolled over at a 45° angle by his propwash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: License Lifted | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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