Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat order he roped off the streets, built his boats on the pavement; to get huge Navy landing boats from New Orleans to Norfolk in time for test runs, he shipped them on flatcars, tore down and rebuilt eight railroad bridges which were too small to let his boats through...
Italian aliens, said Francis Biddle, had met the test of patriotism. Largest group of enemy aliens in the country, they had the smallest number of internees among the big three (Germany, Japan, Italy). They are working hard on production lines; their sons are fighting in the armed forces. Francis Biddle promised another reward, which will permit about one-third their number to attain citizenship quickly: suspension of the literacy test for all aliens over 50 who have lived in the U.S. continuously since...
...test of battle is the only valid one for any Army or Navy plane...
...famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John...
...Many a U.S. religionist of the Pentacostal or "Holy Roller" variety believes that Christ's statement to His disciples after the Resurrection ("In my name . . . they shall take up serpents") means literally what it says. In 1940 Kentucky banned snakes in church services. Last week, in the first test case under this law, the State Court of Appeals upheld $50 fines on three men and two women for bringing rattlesnakes to church...