Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.

Rector's next stop was at the schoolroom, where Mavis was monitoring a test.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

In this test a Af tape was pulled between the blocks with a motor and pulley at a rate of Af with a clearance of 0.002'' '' on each side of the tape.

The maximum suction was 3.25'' '' of test fluid measured from the top of the block, and steady states were apparently reached with these fluids.

In this test, 130 gallons of a suspension, having a count of Af organisms per ml, or a total of approximately Af spores, was aerosolized.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

Accordingly, another test of the questionaire was made.

The first test mailing ( to 14 companies ) was made in June, 1960.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

The screen test was never made -- but Diane was.

There was no close examination of his clothes for bloodstains, and certainly no scientific test was made of them.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

The tour was very successful for the Lions, who won all eight non-tests and won the test series against Australia, two to one.

( The first successful test did not occur until 1952, after Attlee had left office.

Although the concept was proven sound and the 500 megawatt engine finished a successful test run in 1961, no airworthy device was ever completed.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

The test was carried out on November 1, 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and was the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb.

Fermium was first discovered in the fallout from the ' Ivy Mike ' nuclear test ( 1 November 1952 ), the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb .< ref name =" lanl ">

* 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

Following the successful completion of the test, he provided the results to the British government.

The first successful test followed on 21 August 1957 ; the R-7 flew over 6000 km and became the world's first ICBM.

However, funding was cut after only three partially successful launches in 1948 of the second stage design, used to test variations on the V-2 design.

The first successful ABM test were conducted by the USSR in 1961, that later deployed a fully operating system defending Moscow in the 1970s ( see Moscow ABM system ).

Most are still just theoretical, but the Deep Space 1 mission was a very successful test of an ion drive.

NASA's Deep Space One was a very successful test of a prototype ion drive, which fired for a total of 678 days and enabled the probe to run down Comet Borrelly, a feat which would have been impossible for a chemical rocket.

The United Kingdom supposedly conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test at Malden Island on 15 May 1957 ; Christmas Island was the operation's main base.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

* 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

Following this successful test, installation works of the first telegraph line ( Istanbul-Adrianople-Şumnu ) began on 9 August 1847.

The first test launch took place on 16 August 1968, the first successful at-sea launch was from a surface ship, the historic ( from July 1 to December 16, 1969 ), earning the ship the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the first test launch from a submarine took place on the on 3 August 1970.

In 1982 the navy conducted a successful test of an underwater-launched ballistic missile.

To use an example from Milton Friedman, if a theory that says that the behavior of the leaves of a tree is explained by their rationality passes the empirical test, it is seen as successful.

After test failures with the first three flight tests because of guidance and sensor problems, the fourth and final test on June 10, 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.