Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like corpses in a morgue, track-&-field stars lay sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
Last week Miss Stenz dared Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to make a scientific test of her treatment. Boasted she: "I will grow hair on any person chosen by the A.M.A. and do it under observation." Dr. Fishbein wasn't having any. Said he, fingering his own bald head and repeating an ancient wheeze: "'Any ass in Athens can grow more hair than the wisest man.' These cells are dead. Anybody who can restore hair in dead cells can restore people from the grave...
...banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...
...test is given under the honor system-no peeking...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...