Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this fact was neither new nor surprising: the Allied high command long ago stated its conviction that bombing could do no more than ease the path of the armies. But for a time airmen hoped that in their supporting role they would have sufficient forces by this fall to test the possibility of victory by bombing.* Last week this hope had all but faded. The adopted-and so far successful-strategy in the Mediterranean showed all too clearly that the Allies could not yet provide the enormous air forces necessary for such operations, and at the same time mount...
...Plato Schwartz and Harry Bou-man at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) used an oscillograph (electrical impulse recorder) to test the muscles of infantile-paralysis patients. They found that while it is true that the contracted muscles are in spasm, the stretched muscles and other muscles all over the body are also in spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve...
...Harvard doctors, after a two-month feeding test, announced that an active adult can get along perfectly well with no more than an ounce of meat...
...preparation for their entrance into the college physical training program, 800 Army Specialists are taking physical efficiency tests this week. After taking the eight event test, which is to give all ATS men this side of the river percentage ratings, ASTP men will join the regular conditioning classes...
...test consists of squat jumps, pushups, situps, pullups, a 100 yard "pick-a-back" run, "burpees," and a 300 yard spring. One hundred per cent will be given for 73 or more squat jumps, 85 situps, 18 pullups, 43 pushups, 13.75 "burpees," an 18 second speed in the hundred "pick-a-back," and 35 seconds or less in the 300 yard...