Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between the Soviet Trade Delegation and the Soviet Government. Because Mr. Baldwin is a good, sturdy Britisher, his statements carried weight, and were very generally accepted by the British public as proof that Great Britain had a perfect, technical right to cancel her Trade Agreement and diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia last week on the ground that the Russians had consistently misused the privileges accorded them...
...designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students...
...present there is an exhibition of first editions of Edmund Spencer in the Widener Room of the Library, as well as proof sheets corrected by famous authors...
...Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling pastime, which coupled with the high worth of the cause would seem to add much to the gentle art of giving, --to the Harvard Law School Endowment Fund...
...most valuable set of proofs in the collection is that of "Kim," by Kipling. This set would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...