Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bombay Gazette employs 16 women compositors and one woman proof-reader...
...court took cognizance of the economic questions involved in the issue of inconvertible notes. In the final decision the court refused to ask itself whether paper currency was economically wise or not, hence the increased majority in favor of the power of Congress to issue paper. The burden of proof lies on those who wish to prove that the legal-tender laws were unconstitutional. It would be idle to try to discover the intentions of those who framed the Constitution. Law cannot inquire into such obscure questions. The words must be interpreted as they are written. The views...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Must we still, without an answer, hear the old cry for back nets on the tennis grounds. The three courts in the corner of Holmes which have them, have given proof of the practicability of the scheme, and if the Tennis Association will not furnish nets, will it not, at least, tell why? Again, if we must still suffer the "shack" system, will not the Association repeat its good work of last season and establish a fixed rate? Answers to these questions would be acceptable to more than...
...communications called forth by Mr. Laughlin's lecture need little comment. Whether the discussion be profitable, or not, it serves as a proof that there is serious thinking done in Cambridge - the daily papers to the contrary, notwithstanding. We realize this hot-headedness is ever attendant on religious and political altercation, but we deprecate the extreme dogmatic force into which our correspondents have allowed themselves to be betrayed. We close the discussion here in order that our correspondents may not come to blows...
...controversy in which he takes no interest and which is wholly out of his province The remarks which he made in the philosophy course from which our first correspondent derived his "facts," were based on the highest authority, such as the journal of the Linnean Society and the proof-sheets of "The Autobiography of Darwin," the latter of which having been kindly loaned him by Dr. Gray. The subject of the relation of Darwin and Wallace to Malthus was further discussed by him yesterday morning in the class room, as were also the mistakes of our first correspondent...