Word: tested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who took the writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard...
...December cover of Scientific American is a four-color portrait of a camel wearing a nose cone and placidly taking a metabolism test. The table of contents scarcely suggests light reading: "Nucleic Acids and Proteins," "Differentiation in Social Amoebae," "The Proto-Castles of Sardinia." Even the department of games beginning on page 166 is strictly for mathematicians: three computer programers named Ames, Baker and Coombs set out to decide who pays for the beer, but instead of flipping a coin they apply algebraic group theory. (Baker pays...
LeFevre is interested in turning out true libertarians. The school does not make the shunning of all institutional regulation mandatory for acceptance; but it takes only those who are willing to be convinced, and it reserves the right to send home any incorrigibles. A test given at the beginning and end of the session helps determine if students are properly libertarian. A sample question: "Governments are always coercive. True or false...
...M.I.T. match was the Crimson's last match until after vacation, when it will face Cornell on Jan. 9. Although the Big Red should present easy opposition, three days later the Crimson will meet its first real test of the new year against a powerful Williams team...
...guarantee of $35,000, brooding Alex Olmedo, 23, California's Peruvian-in-residence (University of Southern California), quit amateur tennis to join the pros. In a 65-match world tour, Olmedo will hazard his erratic shots against canny Old Pros Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall, a test which should quickly settle the question of whether The Chief is the flash who won the 1958 Davis Cup, or the flub who helped give it back to Australia this year...