Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrial financing. Theorists, comparing current prices for French bonds in New York, London, Amsterdam, Basel, had guessed that French business would have to pay about 6.10% interest on new borrowings. But out came the bankers with Paris-Orleans Railroad bonds yielding only 5.75% and the public quickly devoured them. Proof was here that bankers and public have a better opinion of French credit than statisticians...
...most decisive proof that we have had thus far as to the success of the Reading Period comes in a statement from R. B. Little, barber at the Harvard Union, that dandruff has increased considerably since Christmas, compared with former years. Little's reasons for the fact are as follows. "The students were inside more and got less exercise, therefore the scalp dried up. Then, they neglected their hair to a great extent, being more interested in their studies than in outside engagements. And, of course, when more blood went to the brain, less went to the scalp. Anyhow...
...Fascists who are abroad must be respectful to the laws of the country which gives them hospitality. They must give daily proof of this respect for the laws, and if necessary must give an example in such respect to citizens themselves...
...will not put an adversary to his proof in respect to facts whose existence my client admits. I will refrain from merely formal or technical objection to the admission of evidence...
...about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots. Tact compels me. You may cut it to three...