Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerously. Now, only 23, he had broken himself test-piloting a big new four-motored bomber...
...with charts showing how bombs drop, with maps of the world's airlines and with intricate diagrams, explaining yaw, windstreams and something called a "compressibility burble" which was said to be essential to flight. The U.S. in the air seemed to be equal to any test put upon it: the U.S. had enough technical experience, enough trained men, enough facilities for research, to meet any challenge. And so-though many a reader felt he would rather beat Hitler with his bare hands than master FORTUNE'S graphs-the U.S. that emerged seemed self-confident, capable, even...
...student relief organization whose chief present function is "to enlist American students in the struggle against totalitarianism," decided to bring college leaders together to train them for the job. From a list of 80 prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys and girls from 25 colleges who eventually showed up. Each paid a $60 fee for the five-week session...
...Test of Strategy. Since July 16 Russia claimed to have beaten off 42 attacks on Smolensk, which Napoleon grabbed from strategic retreaters in one day. This Russian decision to stand and counterattack, however it turns out, will undoubtedly be credited to Stalin. But his chief military adviser is Vice Commissar of Defense, Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (Joseph Stalin himself is now self-appointed Commissar...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...