Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ships of war, built to destroy, always look proof against destruction, especially in dock or at anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
...take the proposition seriously. But at all events it is interesting that it should have been made. Whether or not his experiences as Mayor have given him local reputation as a politician or whether or not his travels and contacts with persons in high places are thought to be proof of his political acumen are matters that have not been discussed. He himself will probably answer the questions himself, and one is not sorry that the should have the opportunity...
...same criticism cannot be applied to Widener's workers as a whole. In the Library, like in a good many other places, a customer is apt to receive an ascending amount of attention and interest the higher he seeks it, and Mr. Lane's letter is but another proof that those in charge of Widener are willing to go out of their way in helping the members of the University...
...visas of any sort. Germans should make the reverse voyage unhampered by official red tape. These statements seemed so self-evident to British and German statesmen, during the past week, that an agreement was reached whereby citizens of either country may visit the other when equipped merely with proof of their nationality...
...SPIDER?The practice of magic obscures the proof of murder...