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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turning to affairs more connected with college life, the undergraduates quizzed most nearly agreed when 93.1 per cent of them favored a pre-marital blood test. Over 85 per cent favored R. O. T. C. training in colleges, and over three-fifths thought that sex education courses should be made compulsory, an almost identical fraction desiring the abolition of compulsory class attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate of Today Wants None Of Europe's War, Survey Poll Shows | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

...Wednesday, with ace flinger Al Hatch doing only a four inning stretch. He will be ready to extend his personal string of victories over Harvard tomorrow. Coach Nash has not been impressed with the hitting power his men pack and looks to the game tomorrow as the first test of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fulton Returns to Catcher's Position For Opener Against Tufts on Saturday | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

...believe we are about to see a decisive test of the strength of the British fleet in the face of the superior German air force. It is very possible that Nazi bombers will be able to prevent British transports from reaching Norwegian shores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scandinavia to Be Dangerous For Nazis, Emerson Maintains | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...absorbed by other Philadelphia hospitals. But he fights to keep 45-year-old Frederick Douglass alive, for it is the only hospital in the U. S. where Negro doctors can undertake thoracoplasty (rib surgery for collapsing the lung). Dr. Stubbs chooses his patients carefully, for they are all test cases. Since 1937, when he started thoracoplasty at Frederick Douglass, Dr. Stubbs has operated on 40 patients, almost all of them "poor risks" (some even over 60), has lost only five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Negro Health | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still probably no high brow U. S. music that can be identified as such in a blindfold test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home-Grown Composer | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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