Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test was significant. Mobilized against the bill was a large block of Tories led by a titled hotel expert, Sir Douglas Hacking, who is also a potent behind-scenes figure in the Conservative Party. Beveridge Plan supporters felt that the Tories were simply voicing their traditional conservatism. Said Sir Stafford Cripps's leftist Tribune: "The British people will have only themselves to blame if they ignore the fact that the old ruling class are as reactionary as ever...
...metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes of glass holding a half-inch filling of plastic. Exhaust heat is circulated through the air space to prevent ice. This has withstood...
...larger the class, the greater the feeling of accomplishment you get from leading them," he says. Noted for his jazzed-up cadence counting and melodramatic exhortations, he is impressed with the cooperation he gets. Upperclassmen, he feels, are improving as well as Freshman, 1300 of whom are being tested regularly by the Brouha step test to record the effects of the program...
...little dog (a wire-haired fox terrier) named Delia. She was brown and pawed the air. I poured all my love and affection into her training, working night and day so she would pass the tests. Her size was against her to begin with. She weighed 28 pounds and the minimum is 50. She obeyed me like a machine. She'd sit on a "stay" command while I marched out of sight and no one could budge her. I'd reappear from over a rise perhaps 200 yards away and signal "down" and she would drop like...
...special Pre-Medical Aptitude Test will be given today at 3 o'clock in Emerson...