Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...Golden Bug. In the test tube, neomycin worked against strains of tuberculosis bacilli which might become resistant to streptomycin (i.e., learn how to flourish alongside streptomycin). The bacilli did not become resistant to neomycin as they had to the older drug. Tests with animals are not yet complete, because there has not been enough of the stuff to work with. But in mice and on embryos from chicken eggs it worked against Staphylococcus aureus (the "golden bug" which causes boils and abscesses) and against Salmonella schottmülleri (which causes a kind of paratyphoid fever). One bug is affected...
Except for Godin, whose 8-3 record topped the Harvard pitchers last season, McInnis must experiment with the rest of his staff to see who will stand up under fire and who won't. The six games in as many days next week will definitely test his mound corps. Barry Turner, Ralph Hymans, and Roy Meears are expected to back up Godin. Hymans wears a special plastic covering over his sweatshirt this year, which he claims keeps his arm warmer...
...year, for example, we studied all the students who has scored 300--a perfect grade--on their scholastic aptitude test. Half of them flunked...
Then, each student is handed some material to read against time in class. Once again, there is a ten-question test on what they have read...