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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test Case. In Manhattan, Tavern Owner Lillian Wolfe joined a discussion of crime, assured two of her customers that "if this place were held up, I'd hand over every cent," promptly obliged when one of them pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...general election was not due until next year, but last week in London's factory and residential district of South Hammersmith, both parties had a chance to test their strength in a preview of greater things to come. Each contestant put everything he had into the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Portent | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uninhabited Aircraft | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

There was no literature on the subject, so the doctors duplicated the trouble in three monkeys by cutting the same nerves. Then they worked out an operation on the monkeys that allowed them to eat again in comfort. Ready for the real test, the doctors took part of a muscle from the patient's neck and sewed it to his Adam's apple. This muscle normally helps control the tongue. But it worked; the patient could raise his Adam's apple. It was the first such operation, say the three surgeons, that has ever been performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Art of Swallowing | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Buddy King brought the Crimson its first three points after the Tigers had built up an 11-0 lead and Howie Houston added the last five with a pin of heavyweight Reddy Finney in his first real test Houston's stellar performance brought the crowd of 1500 to its feet. In between, however, the Tigers scored pins in the lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight divisions...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nassau Wrestlers Mangle Crimson Squad Here, 28-8 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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