Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued to beg inventors to devise a 22-lb. light machine gun, up to last week had neither offered nor been asked to test the new Johnson. Having been told (unofficially, but unmistakably) that he could never do business with the U. S. Army, Inventor Johnson perforce took his deadly darlings to foreign buyers...
Since everyone but the British Army seemed to realize that the Spanish War was a test-tube war for Germany and Italy, Tom Wintringham began pointing some lessons for Britain's military future...
...Italian Army is regarded by military men the world over with emotion ranging from contempt to hilarity-almost nowhere with admiration. But this was the first real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
Several things happened last week to make diplomats wonder how long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...exactly the same Franklin Roosevelt that you have known for a great many years." The big-shouldered man who faced his neighbors leaning on the arm of Son Franklin Jr. had won a third term. The vote had been sensationally large. If the election of 1940 had been a test of democracy, voters had met the test the only way they could: by voting 50,000,000 strong...