Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
Some few moments later a limousine with bullet-proof glass windows stops at the door. Up the stair stalks Il Duce. He enters the presence of the dead, alone. Like a soldier, like a ramrod, he stands at attention beside the bier. Minutes pass. No tears, no prayers, no rattling of beads. At last Signor Mussolini salutes the dead and strides away...
...done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried on exhaustive investigations on this subject for many years and the results of his search are proof of his theory, long held by teachers...
...inscription that would seem to solve the mooted point of the date of the foundation of the college was uncovered yesterday by Assistant-Professor K. B. Murdock '16. Professor Murdock an antiquarian of distinction has long been engaged in the search for absolute proof in the matter. It has long been believed that the college was founded in 1636 but there was no definite proof other than the reminiscences of some of the faculty members. The new inscription hitherto in a hidden and secluded spot bids fair to settle the matter for all time...
...University Gazette was her pride --the pride of proof-reader, editor, and guardian. On Wednesday, February 15, she was taken home from her office, threatened with death from failure of the heart; on Friday she persisted in getting up from her bed to read the proof of the Gazette. "There is nobody else to read it," she said. On Saturday morning, she died...