Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...once charged to the Air Force. It also was likely to give rise to some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, and the second takes too long...
...designing nuclear reactors, Hafstad said, the scientist cannot depend on familiar, well-behaved materials. Most of them are useless. They absorb too many neutrons (and so slow down the reaction) or they are quickly damaged by corrosion, heat or radiation. The AEC is building a special reactor to test the performance of various materials for piping, shielding, etc. Until it has been in operation for some time, reactor designers will not know for certain what materials they dare...
...flying laboratory," General Electric Co. gives striking proof of the power of a jet engine. To test a new jet G.E. slings it under the bomb bay of a heavy B29. With its four 2,400-h.p. piston engines roaring, the bomber takes off and climbs to high altitude. Then the jet is started and its performance studied under varying conditions of speed, air density and temperature...
Trying to get first-rate films for his three-month test, McDonald has run into a virtual boycott by the Hollywood studios. Among his other obstacles: the studios are committed by contract to the American Federation of Musicians to keep musical sound tracks...