Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision also declared the law contrary "to the fundamental principles of Christianity." This point might become the basis for attacks on other states' laws. The Roman Catholic Church had helped to carry through the legal test, on the grounds that the law abridged the freedom of religion, thus violated the Federal Constitution...
Three days later, in what looked like the toughest test of Citation's career-the twomile, $100,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup -Arcaro was prepared to try out the magic words once more. This time he didn't even have to speak. He took the big mahogany-colored horse to the front at the start. Citation won by eight easy lengths, in the longest distance he has ever...
Inside, the false electronic siren sang on & on, night after night. She killed, in all, 40,000 males. By the end of the test period, only a few were left to answer her fatal invitation. For two miles around the swamp was almost cleared of males...
...sticking by Bromsgrove. Said Reeve: "At Bromsgrove, we developed a thirst for knowledge. At St. James, boys were apt to regard culture as a sign of decadence, devotion to learning as the mark of a sissy. The student merely wants to learn enough to pass the next test. Then it goes out of his mind as easily as it came...
When offers came, he demanded to see scripts. M-G-M showed him a few, but nothing that interested him. He made a test for another producer, who greedily insisted on a long-term contract, then threatened to have Clift blackballed for refusing to sign...