Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the time, and very informally, he visited. He received callers, apologizing for his English, while an attaché hammered a typewriter in one corner of the room and Embassy personnel passed constantly in and out. He gave Vice President Henry Wallace a chance to test his Spanish, and got along so well with British Ambassador Lord Halifax that they exchanged autographed photographs. One night he received 350 guests, and during the reception went upstairs with Ambassador Castillo Nájera to consider the problem of dilapidated Embassy furniture...
...pressure chamber, 11 ft. in diameter and 45 ft. long (it will hold the fuselage of any pursuit ship or test segments of bombers), can simulate air conditions from sea level to 65,000 ft. Much that comes from these two laboratories is secret, but last week three of their products were announced...
...what the hell? We all die sometime, and very few of us get to die for a cause. And if I do get through I will have had a world of experience and the feeling that perhaps in times that try men's souls I had stood the test...
Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again...
Mechanism of the test is simple: the subject looks at the ten blots one after another and tells what he sees in each. But interpreting the results of the test is a matter for an expert. No one answer ever gives the whole story: a child of six reacts one way, a man of 60 another...