Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the test of World War II came, the little people of Italy helped Allied arms destroy Fascismo. They refused to fight for a corrupt regime, to love the German ally. Their revolt, at first passive, then open, sapped Benito Mussolini's edifice, forced Badoglio to surrender...
Freshmen who passed their step test in the last week of August are eligible for House athletics, soccer, single sculling, tennis or swimming, Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday. At present there are no openings for new men in crew, due to an overcrowded situation...
...Colonel General Ivan Konev, captor of Kharkov. A hard-faced man with a leathery skin and a head as bare as a billiard ball, he is one of the dwindling number of oldtimers who survived the test of this war. Like Popov, he headed an army in the Far East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said...
...Project for Perpetual Peace. Mild William Penn was for it. So was Abbe de Saint-Pierre. But not until 1815, when the reactionary genius of Prince Metternich bore splotchy fruit in what has accurately been called the Unholy Alliance, was international policing really put to the test of action...
...Professor Harry Warren Anderson of the University of Illinois's horticulture department has made a new drug, clavacin, from mold. He thinks it "may be more useful" than penicillin because, in test tubes, "it kills all bacteria killed by penicillin" and more besides. He has cured some plant diseases with clavacin but has yet to make tests on animals...