Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under way, a victory was in sight which could mean more to the Allied cause than last week's gains in Sicily and Italy...
...that's why all the stuff about the Army Specialist has been confined to the psychology boys, whom we all suspect of training for the Sorokin Abstinence Test (and secretly planning to flunk in an orgasm of orgiastic depravity...
Bewildering Bones. The results, reports Rhine, "were strange and startling." One group of 25 crapshooters, in 562 runs (6,744 throws), got 3,110 hits, or 300 better than par; according to Rhine, the odds against such a result happening by chance are trillions to one. In another test, a woman threw nearly a thousand runs, wound up with 382 hits above par. In still another, a woman performing under the supervision of her husband scored 77 hits above chance in 3,600 tries. The result which put the biggest crimp in Rhine's theory (and which he makes...
...loosest association with the pronunciation (brgyad means eight, is pronounced jay), the literature is virtually unrelated to the contemporary idiom. Through the centuries the Tibetans under their Lamas* have adapted their language very slowly, although they have taken over some words like airplane (the Germans attempted the first test flight across the country) and electric light (Lhasa has a small power plant...
Fruitful Trash. Faulkner rented a farm and conducted a serious test. He grew a thick cover crop of rye, harrowed it in, planted in a surface that looked more like a trash pile than soil. He used no commercial fertilizer, no insecticides. He shocked neighboring farmers by his unorthodox method of planting tomatoes: he simply laid each plant on top of the packed soil and threw a little dirt on its roots. Within 24 hours every plant stood up straight. The source of this idea was an old textbook picture of a seedbed. Faulkner noticed that while the seedbed...