Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beals replied that he had thought he was addressing adult intelligences. Mrs. Dawes left the room. Mr. Beals stated that proof of his charge would soon be offered by the Mexican Government...
...college have hitherto been secured from alumnae whose emotions have been stirred by emotional appeals to the spirit of the old college. Future appeals for funds, if they are to come from us when we attain the dignity of graduates, will have to be based upon reason and upon proof of the need. Our affections for this our temporary place of residence, will probably be no less than that or our predecessors, but it is going to be of a some what different nature. We shall remember our college not in the golden glow of careless youth, but with...
...jazz, or the desire for comedy that is really comic. One does not have to be an intellectual to appreciate "The Mikado" or "The Gondoliers"; and "Patience" in spite of its theme being quite dead, is as alive today as in the time of Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have...
...office man bethought him of telephotography. This is the process of sending pictures by way of electric wires, and the Bell System had just recently installed the needed apparatus in San Francisco and other major cities. If Doremus & Co.'s revised advertisements were set up and a clean proof photographed, the Bell Co. would deliver exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head...
...clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), died in 1882 having sorely suffered from chronic indigestion for 40 years...