Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Force will conduct an intelligence test for flight candidates today at 2 o'clock in Emerson D. Physical examinations will be given at the Indoor Athletic Building today from 9 o'clock on. All men interested in Flight Officer training should come around on Monday...
Britain put its new form of lightning war to the first major test Wednesday in a combined air, land, and sea bombardment of France's Diego Suarez naval base on Madagascar and the results, despite stubborn French resistance, were encouraging to the United Nations' cause...
Canadians this week voted on the hotly argued proposition that would allow the Government to conscript men for overseas service (TIME, April 27). In this critical test of Canada's wartime unity, incomplete returns indicated a 7-to-3 victory for the Government-chiefly over the vote of French Canadians in Quebec, where rural balloting went heavily...
Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...
...test on Sunday is, therefore, intended to determine if people are capable of making the distinction between the test signal and the real signal without becoming panicky and without disturbing the air raid workers' practice. Consequently, Sunday's warning will consist of a series of three short blasts repeated for two minutes as contrasted with a series of five blasts, which would signify an actual raid...