Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned, the test of how thoroughly TIME's convention staff did its job rests in its forecast of the balloting. Before the convention Domestic Bureau Chief David Hulburd's U.S. correspondents and stringers, including Washington Bureau Chief Jim Shepley's staff, had filed detailed information on each state's delegation, estimating its possible first and second ballot choices, describing the background of key delegates, etc. At the Convention this work was continued painstakingly to the point where, the day before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought...
...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
...operation has been performed on 14 patients. All were schizophrenics, manic-depressives, or psychoneurotics in obsessive states. In the first three cases the technique was not perfected, and there was no improvement. The last three operations were too recent to test results. Of the other eight, one died; three are still in institutions; four improved enough to return home, one enough to get a job (as a farm worker...
...task of Christian art," wrote Leo Tolstoy, "is to establish brotherly union among men." Kathe Kollwitz' prints and drawings pass even Tolstoy's severe test. For more than 40 years, her art helped finance the clinic maintained by her doctor husband in a Berlin slum, and she found many of her models in the clinic as well. Pitiful studies of the poor and starving, her pictures were designed to shake Christian consciences awake, and they...
...first man to fly faster than sound in the XS-1 was Air Force Captain Charles Yeager. By now, four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...