To "talk it over" means to weigh and test; to put something into "black and white" means to decide, to freeze the thought.
Arthur C. Ruge, who invented a fingernail-sized gauge that helped the United States win World War II and revolutionized the way things are weighed and tested for stress, died Monday at his home in Lexington, Mass., according to his daughter, Claire Bertucci.
If Mr. Bush orders the nation to war in the hours ahead, decisions reached by Mr. Rumsfeld and his brain trust after months of fierce debate will be weighed and tested on the battlefields of Iraq.
In the course of the scrutiny of the argument, virtually all its aspects have been weighed and tested.
The cubes for each mix were taken out of the curing tank, weighed and tested for compressive strength at each of the stated curing days.
[Rashi teaches that f]rom the perspective of quantifiable facts - what can be measured, weighed and tested - these are as objectively unequal as two different human beings...Yet the source of human worth is not based on any facts.
The supernatant was dialyzed (cut-off of the dialysis tube: 3500 Daltons) against water (3 days), lyophilised, weighed and tested for the capacity to protect mice.
All animals were weighed and tested 6 days/week.
Each piece was separately weighed and tested for nematode presence and census.
Mice were first weighed and tested with a handy force gauge (Bioseb, France).
12 14 Ethnographic 15 and sociological 16 investigation of medical diagnosis reveals that this is a complex and often problematic process, in which the clinician combines results of diagnostic tests with the patient's narrative (structured as a clinical history), implicitly or explicitly forming, weighing up and testing hypotheses.
