Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dentists have been extracting infected teeth as alleviation of bad tonsils, sore eyes, arthritis and certain heart affections. But this procedure has not always been based on positive proof that the teeth were responsible. Doctors and dentists urged those attending to be cautious hereafter in wholesale extracting...
...wide area of the Valley made a clearing of the entire rock foundation impossible. On the other hand, at Gizeh, there was every necessity for making the plaster absolutely smooth with the rock and completely camouflaged. The failure on the part of the architects to do this seemed sufficient proof to Rowe and Greenees that the stairs were false and led nowhere...
...that he enjoys life's human minutiae, which is extraordinary when you consider with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend of bees and bootblacks, bovines and businessmen, icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...
...wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan...
...east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years ago and new completed, seem to us quite as romantic as any ever undertaken by an archaeologist. --The Nation...