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Word: testings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning to Dictators | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CQ-KHBRC | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...control in similar statesmanlike perspective : ''When I went to Washington nearly six years ago, I found that there were many different agencies . . . dealing with disasters . . . but there was no coordination between them. That flood last year on the Ohio and the Mississippi gave me an opportunity to test out the new machinery which I created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hustings & History | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...small Chinese carp last week succeeded a small Japanese carp, the bitterling, which obstetricians once used as a test for pregnancy (TIME, Oct. 12, 1935), as Medicine's favored fish. Called telescope fish- because it has big. pop eyes, one out of five is so transparent that its gall bladder, intestine, heart and a big vein in the tail are easily seen. Although telescope fish cost only 3? apiece in Philadelphia, only place in the U. S. where they are bred, the visibility of their internal organs makes them precious to medical scientists, particularly to Philadelphia Pharmacologist Arno Viehoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helpful Fish | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Seven years of experiment have gone into radiotype. Test machines are now typing through the air at racing speed, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." And Division Manager Lemmon expects to have marketable equipment by year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quicker Fox | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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