Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone mad if the existence of the other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having the same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether the twins were together or apart. Others claim the mental disease to be the result of environment and association; insist at least that identical twins would not go simultaneously mad or have the same type...
Jews have done inestimable service to music. Never, even in its most fanatical moments, has Anti-Semiticism presented any serious argument to the contrary. Now as if to prove that which has needed no proof, Gdal Saleski has compiled a catalog* of famed Jewish musicians. He stresses individual contributions, the contribution of the Jewish people as a whole...
...interest manifested in the University swimming meet yesterday afternoon is ample-proof of the need of a new pool. The anonymous donor of the necessary sum apparently made his gift just in time. Athletics for all is an excellent slogan, but it has already exceeded its physical bounds, and the most obvious overcrowding anywhere is at the Big Tree...
...Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy pilot down easy...
...nameless organ-grinder with his pony-cart; Dan the newsman; Nappy, most venerable of taxi-drivers; these are proof enough that the genus still lives and flourishes. Smith Halls knows the melodious shout "Co - -al!"; the whole college has at least heard of Adolphe and Bob Lampoon; the whole college greets and is greeted...