Measure of knowledge

Usage examples of test.

Whitman was asked whether Bush should have an abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court, she boasted that as governor of New Jersey she had abjured litmus tests for her judicial nominees.

Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.

A special test for sulphide may be made by adding a drop or two of solution of acetate of lead to four or five c.

At that time no chemical test could be applied to aconitine, any more than it could to strychnine in the time of Palmer.

There is no test so powerfully able to bring out latent adaptability as one in which the stakes are survival.

This may be tested for by dissolving, say, 2 grams in a little water and adding barium chloride.

There are several telephones, seven or eight chairs, two racks on wheels that contain all the charts, and an Addressograph machine used when we order lab studies, X-rays, or tests on patients.

In the present instance, the whole strain of the argument comes upon the adequacy of the proposed test of truth, viz.

Marghe wondered how she had been able to tell about the cumulative toxic effect of the adjuvants just from that test, but had not doubted that she could, and was glad to find someone who thought she could help her body get rid of them.

Many of the tests specified in the Allen citation to determine the character of ink constituents, if made alone are practically valueless, because the same behavior occurs with different materials employed in the admixture of ink.

This information was captured by offering the customer an incentive during our test advertising stages.

Without him, the tests of the Prescott aeroplane could hardly be conducted.

Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.

Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.

But She gave him not the slightest inkling of the difficulties he might face, hinting only that, as with the test of his faithfulness to ahimsa, part of the test would be his ability to discover the true nature of the test and why he was being tested.