Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-out assault is made on Malta, it may be not only practice for an attack on Britain but a test of whether the Axis will ever be able to make successful assaults from the air on Gibraltar, Alexandria, Suda Bay, Tobruch, other big and little naval bases; whether, in short, the Axis can make the Mediterranean its sea by making the air above an Axis...
...first of the equipment was rolling into the building on railroad flatcars. The steelwork was about 90% complete and glaziers were on the heels of the steelmen in the rest of the building. Major Kadlec could proudly announce that the arsenal, complete with powerhouse, office, hospital building and test track, would be ready on schedule, April...
...Bulgaria. Last week they turned the heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders. Purposes of this little war of nerves were to test the resistance of Yugoslavia, to create distrust of Belgrade in Athens and Ankara...
...grads sometimes complain, sometimes boast that they have forgotten most of what they learned in college. A few years ago the Carnegie Foundation decided to check up on how much a college graduate forgets. It had already tested the learning of thousands of Pennsylvania college students, first as sophomores, then as seniors. Five years after their graduation, the Foundation rounded up a group of these former students, gave them the same test again. This week, in the Foundation's annual report, Researcher William S. Learned reported his findings...
...defending ASCAP's position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will put on a weekly hour-long coast-to-coast program of ASCAP songs over some 110 independent stations. Produced by Billy Rose, with music by a 26-piece orchestra under Director Russell Bennett, singing by a mixed chorus...