Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" passes three acts in the agreeable proof of that old psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
This was one of his chief evidences to prove that America is governed by women; the great increase of restrictive laws in this country as well as the great increase in general legislation in the last years. Prohibition, among other things, Count Keyserling cites as proof that America is in reality "a matriarche...
Whatever the results of the present inquisition, the condition of the Reading Period immediately preceding are ample proof of the experiment's soundness. Whether the marks show it or not, there is scarcely any denying the fact that the respite from lectures has brought increased industry, interest, over-long assignments, scarcity of books, improper emphasis, over-strenuous extra curricular activities--these must be admitted and expected in so radical an experiment. Improvement in these matters will come readily through experience...
...Pope at Home . . . (Reading time 21 minutes 40 seconds)''-had he been given an opportunity to survey the proof-sheets of an article published under this heading in last week's issue of Liberty, nickel weekly, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...This attitude is shameless hypocrisy. Standard has proof that Shell did everything in its power for seven months in 1926 to obtain a monopoly for the sale of Russian oil. Shell failed. Shell invited all oil interests to refrain from selling Russian oil. Standard of N. Y. refused...