Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Suspension, disqualification and rehabilitation. Facts which respectively sustain them and the means of proof...
...which can produce such results as are being exhibited now to the University. It was only a few years ago that the Harvard Camera Club was hardly more than a name. Its work for the University in connection with the exhibit at Chicago and these lantern slides exhibitions are proof enough of the increased efficiency of the club. Energy of this kind, where men are working for a definite and worthy object, is heartily to be encouraged...
...investigating party first explored the chalk bluffs of the San Diego River, Texas, where they found mammoth tusks and bones together with flints and axes. They had no proof, however, that man and the mammoth were here contemporaneous, because in many places remains of the Indians are found mingled with the traces of an earlier age. In these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found...
Independent action means that a man shall exercise his own judgment as to candidates and principles. Thus only can he aid his country's progress, and of the great influence which he may then exert, the success of independent action in the abolition question is sufflcient proof...
...possibility of an epidemic of small-pox this winter and it is very important that every man here should be vaccinated immediately if he has not been vaccinated within two or three years. It is pretty generally accepted among medical men that vaccination does not render a man proof against the disease for more than five years and by some it is claimed that it is good for only three. However this may be, every man who has not been vaccinated recently should see to the matter at once. There is great danger of contracting disease in hot, closed cars...