Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scholastic Aptitude Test, Emerson D. Required for those new students who have not already taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board...
...poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight, all made by Waddie out of odds & ends from the five...
...Luftwaffe used the week's lull to test Britain's night defenses. A few experienced German pilots were sent over nocturnally, and one night shortly before dawn they gave London's fashionable West End its first taste and sound of high explosive. Actually hit were tenements, shops and an empty cinema in a slum district. The slumsters laughed because, while none of them was killed, a local undertaker's emporium was demolished...
...fine test of Pearson & Allen's persuasive powers was getting Defense Commissioner Knudsen to join them on the air a few weeks back. Interviewing Knudsen, Pearson & Allen found him willing. But the National Defense Advisory Commission insisted that no one member of the Commission should make his views known before a joint report had been issued. Forthwith Pearson & Allen pulled potent strings, presently from the White House came word that Knudsen was free to face a mike...
...swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...