"I have put it to _its_ test with good results."

[Wilson Gray]

In the context in which this sentence occurs, you'd expect

"... to _the_ test ..."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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