Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outfit in dungarees and hip boots got its first look at its equipment, blinked when its officer-instructor said: "If you aren't handy with it, one day you may get shot." Farther down the shore, a purification outfit ran off drinking water, checked its chlorinated product in test tubes. Off in the woods camoufleurs practiced hiding barracks buildings under false roofs, pine boughs, strips of brown flannel. Elsewhere on Belvoir's rolling, wooded 10,000 acres, Engineers practiced bridging ditches for infantry. Marching along the roads with rifles slung, they passed experimental pillboxes, saw evidences of other...
...crowds jammed the first anniversary showing of Gone With the Wind and the first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test in the store. Freckled brown orchids sold at a half crown a bunch in Piccadilly, where the crowds window-shopped before late dinners or after big late teas in crowded Lyons' Corner Houses. Londoners were not liking the news from Libya and Greece, but were relaxing in the comfortable...
...test the hormone, Dr. Ivy and his workers operated on 30 dogs, cutting off a snip of their small intestine directly below the stomach, and tacking the stomach on again to the second section of the intestine. Such short-circuited dogs usually develop ulcers and die within a few months. Dr. Ivy gave ten of them injections of enterogastrone, three times a day, for seven months. Results: 16 of the untreated dogs (80%) developed ulcers; only one of the treated dogs (10%) was stricken...
...been reported in medical literature. Most famous case: Mary Tudor, Queen of England. In addition to a distended abdomen, a woman may present other signs of pregnancy such as amenorrhea (absence or suppression of menstruation), full breasts, fetal movements, etc. If a doctor is at all suspicious, a biological test, like the Aschheim-Zondek pregnancy test, will solve the problem. But a few doctors have been taken in by the symptoms...
According to Wells, who had a part in making out the famous Alpha test for the draft during the last war, the Army plans to use an entirely now system in the present mobilization. The Alpha, or "horse-feathers", test was for literate men and endeavored to determine their general mental ability by such problems as completion of arithmetical progressions, analogies between words, and recognition of synonyms and antonyms...