Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge Metzger wanted the whole legal hog or none. He decided to make a test with an ancient civil weapon: the writ of habeas corpus. Two U.S. citizens of German ancestry had been held for months in an Army detention camp. Judge Metzger's writ ordered the Army to hand the prisoners over to the civil courts...
...specific item which the house-to-housers included in all their questionings was "British Portraits." Up & down the U.S. it was popular, unpopular-about a draw. A completely imaginary program, "British Portraits" was tossed in to test the accuracy of the survey...
...many respects the picture is very good. If the test for a film is its ability to make one forget his inhibitions, his preconceived notions and expectations, then "The Contant Nymph" succeeds. Any attempt to portray the life of a composer to the audiences which attend movies is not liable to be good but this one is definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn...
...Lockland's resident Army inspection chief, Major Frank La Vista, testified that 400 plane motors were turned down in July on the final test run because of faulty parts. He cited another instance in which three engines, packed for shipping, were found by him to be defective. The company then rechecked 89 other engines packed for shipping, found flaws in a number of them...
...final test of his work, at war's end, will depend on them. But it will also depend vitally on the speed with which the War Department can shovel out money after contracts are canceled. If the money pours out fast enough, U.S. industry will have enough capital to get into civilian production in jigtime...