Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Years ago, when we were both students at Cornell, the present Chinese Ambassador gave me a simple and unfailing rule for telling our loyal friends from Japanese: Chinese have monosyllabic, Japanese polysyllabic names. This test is far easier than calipers. . . . J. V. DEPORTE New Lebanon Center...
...This is a time when the courage of all the people of these islands, whatever their nationality, is being put to the test. We are being afforded a rare opportunity to show the stuff of which we are made...
...veteran nerve campaigner of Berchtesgaden was not idle. Angered by his reverses in Russia and Libya, undoubtedly bent on some recuperative blow, he appeared to be covering his retreats with a barrage of rumors calculated to test the reactions of possible opponents or "collaborators...
...that she had served cocktails to her high-school students (TIME, July 19, 1937), her neighbors in Saugus, Mass. signed petitions; students picketed her detractors' homes. She saw her picture splashed over the nation's front pages. Columnists glorified her. Out of the notoriety came a screen test-a chance to escape the humdrum life of a schoolmarm...
That was in 1937. She flunked the screen test. A radio job in Boston petered out. She sang a few times in nightclubs. Then she was forgotten. But there was no going back to Saugus. She wound up in Manhattan, writing advertising copy for lingerie and haberdashery, living in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment, struggling to make ends meet, like thousands of other obscure working girls...