Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is something that is quite puzzling to me . . . after reading about Test Pilot Yeager [TIME, April 18], Suppose a plane was traveling at the speed of a bullet, and a gun located in the plane and facing the direction of travel was fired, what would happen to the bullet? Would it stay in the gun, come back, or go forward at twice its normal speed...
What Is Loyalty? Harry Truman tossed away the new loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
...High Gear. The election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
...form. It takes long hours of work to construct the ester molecule, and when it's finally finished there are a lot of chemicals mixed in that nobody wants. When Friedman and Wolf find out how to get rid of them, they'll be ready for the crucial mouse-test...
...another chemistry lab, Assistant Professor Gilbert J. Stork is also building large molecules. Using test tubes and Florence flasks, Stork makes substances like quinine and morphine that one were obtained only by expeditions to tropical jungles...