Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Czechoslovakia was stepping up its anti-church propaganda. In a recent pastoral letter, a Czech Catholic bishop declared: "Your loyalty to the church [may] be subjected to a new test. Your way of life and your eternal salvation will depend on whether you withstand...
...acid test facing Prime Minister St. Laurent was the general election expected some time this year. Last week Louis St. Laurent received notice that the struggle would be bitter and hard-fought. In a by-election in the Quebec riding of Nicolet-Yamaska, his Liberal Party candidate was beaten in a surprise turnover by a Progressive Conservative (Tory...
...press, St. Laurent's eyes twinkled as he pointed to a parallel between himself and Harry Truman. "We both came into office without an election," he said, "and we both replaced men who had wide experience and . . . success in winning elections. Mr. Truman has had his acid test, and I am facing mine ... I am here to try to find out, at first hand, Mr. Truman's secret...
...Club to watch 21 topflighters fight it out for the national singles championship. It was like looking down from the observer's roost of an operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached) and run the other fellow's legs...
...news about him. The Foxes took Rupert to the Stange Memorial Veterinary Clinic at Iowa State College. There, Dr. Mack Emmerson transplanted the pituitary gland from the skull of another bull to Rupert's flank. After the gland had had time to work, Rupert was given the heifer test again. Still no calves...