Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials yesterday refused to reveal the names of the martyrs who gave up all colored vegetables--carrots, string beans, peas--except beets, and who voluntarily went without beef, chicken, and ham in the interests of science. So rigorous was the test that they would not have milk, butter, or eggs for half a year...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
Said Mike Monroney: "The people are ahead of Congress in their willingness to do anything and everything necessary to win the war. Congress has got to lead and not follow in the awful test that faces us. . . . The Legislature must not fail in this greatest of all tests. Every member has this responsibility to hand down to the next generation and those that follow: an unimpaired Democracy...
...first entirely home-grown U.S. paper money was put into test circulation last week by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. No one spotted the difference: nylon, instead of silk threads, in the bills...
...three worst-selling novels (Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe). He is the ex-coeditor of the esoteric expatriate magazine, transition, and an expert on boogie-woogie and the accordion. He is the man who introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature a bill (defeated) forcing book & play censors to pass an intelligence test and to prove that their sex lives were normal...