Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't even have a Letters column in our earliest issues (it was launched in December 1924). The first Current Affairs Test came in 1935—appeared twice a year after that until this January, when the government's paper cut order forced us to leave it out. We started Radio in 1938, Army & Navy...
...even larger percentage of U.S. citizens who consider such strikes near treason. Local leaders believe that the sly Old Man of the Mines, considers these cases poor grounds for a Supreme Court fight. But with or without U.M.W., the indictments will almost certainly lead to legal actions which will test how enforceable, how constitutional the Smith-Connally-Harness Act is. The U.S. got one indication of this last week...
...spot, these early operations were not the easy matters which the censored accounts then made them seem to be. Men were killed. Men were wounded. Most of the officers in the 1st and other divisions got their first combat test. At that time, not one division in the new U.S. Army (excepting the lost men of Bataan) had been thoroughly schooled in battle for more battle. But, everything considered, the divisions engaged in Sicily did well, and the 1st division did very well...
...parties, made up mainly of young "Feather Merchants," nickname for Naval Reserve officers. Sensing the amphibious demands of the coming war, the Navy started training shore fire-control officers three years ago, tried them out in the Southwest Pacific, the Aleutians and North Africa. Sicily was their first big test...
...first he found no Japs. "Sometimes," says he, "I think the 'Great Flying Boss in the Sky' was giving me a little more practice before he put me to the supreme test." But one day Scott flew along the Burma Road, caught a Jap column in a narrow defile...