Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named it "Glmite" - similar to the famed German bombs which in Barcelona are supposed to have killed people a quarter-mile away (TIME, March 25). Army and Navy men remained skeptical, but last week both Army and Navy came around; agreed to formulate in writing terms for a scientific test to prove conclusively the effectiveness of Glmite, promised to pay the costs of the experiment...
...Army's willingness to undertake this trial followed the Congressional hearing and an unofficial test which Inventor Barlow staged last fortnight in one corner of the well-guarded grounds of the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. His guests were newsmen, a few Congressmen and curious Army and Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None...
...earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge can, like Joshua's trumpet, make armies tremble and cities crumble...
Meanwhile Adolf Hitler who seldom hesitates, had put his fate again to the test. The rape of Scandinavia was certain to cover him with the world's odium. The rest of the world was already against him. His gamble was that if his stroke were decisive the rest of the world would no longer count. It remained to be seen whether he had overreached himself...
...seven consecutive years during the last twelve they have stood No. 1 in the I. Q. test that the American Council on Education gives annually to some 130 U. S. freshmen classes. Tuition and expenses at Haverford run from $725 to $850 yearly. There is one professor for each five students...