Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military preparations will be undeniable, and unfortunately historical. Fact is none too reassuring in our case. Our expansion southward in Porto Rico. Panama, San Domingo, Danish West Indass, Hayti, Nicaragua,--not to mention the Philippines,--has been steady and sure. We point with pride to Cuba as a proof of our altruistic motives, but it is hard to persuade a foreigner that the incident is closed even...
...action of the Corporation had no allusion to Mrs. Skeffington. Her address suffered, if it suffered at all, from a ruling which would apply equally to an Anglophile as to an Anglophobe address. Mrs. Skeffington's reception was proof enough of the rigid impartiality of Harvard's intellectual interests...
...Anything in the memoir which shall furnish proof of the identity of the author shall be considered as debarring the essay from the competition...
...surprising degree of accuracy in past Catalogues has saved endless confusion wherever facts about Harvard men are dealt with. The painstaking work of Miss Mullen, who for fifteen years has read the proof of the catalogue, deserves highest commendation...
...White Book, British Blue Book, and the books of the other important nations. It is intended to be a standard work on the subject for scholars of the present day and of the future. If it puts Great Britain in a bad light it is due to the absolute proof established in the chronological arrangement of the documents, a system which is the only fair way of obtaining an idea of the activities of the European chancelleries in the summer of 1914. The Macmillan Company certainly would not have accepted such a massive work if it had not been confident...