Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...
...league-leading Lowell eleven will meet its first stiff test of the season this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock when it encounters the once defeated Kirkland squad. The Bellboys, have both a good passing and running attack and should be able to crack the Deacon defense to run up a winning score...
Vance Breese, famed, ruddy test pilot, took it for its first ride. Off the ground he held the ship down, stuck close to earth to make the crash easy on himself if it came. It didn't. Grinned Jack Northrop, after he had landed: "It looks like we have a plane with a 20-foot ceiling...
...ship upstairs, and for the first time Designer Northrop saw his ugly duckling truly in her element. With her wheels tucked up, her humming propellers invisible, she looked like nothing more than an airborne Manta, slack-chinned, glowering through the orifices where her engines take their cooling air. Test Pilot Breese reported that she flew like any other good airplane...
...Claire, Wis., 27-year-old John Weisbrocker passed his physical test, was told he was in fine shape, forthwith fell dead of a heart attack...