Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadline for application with the Commission is December 21, and any student who wants to take the test should consult the Placement Office well before that date...
University physicists pumped 99.999999 percent of the air out of their cyclotron in a vacuum test last week, and then announced that the machine would be finished some time next term...
...test, which will be given shortly after December 21, is open to all undergraduates who contemplate a career in Government service, as well as to graduating seniors who feel the employment problem more closely...
Captain Trapnell, who passes on all Navy planes, is not much like a moviegoers' idea of a test pilot. He is no daredevil, nor is he "in love with the sky." Like most real-life test pilots, he is middle-aged (46) and matter-of-fact about his profession. He finds all airplanes uncomfortable, and suspects that people were happier riding horses...
...average Navyman, who thought that the bomb was expected to pulverize its targets, was at first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than...