Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detachment of the retina. Noises aggravated his condition. When he got back to the U. S. his doctors told him he would have to retire. Publisher Pulitzer gave up active management of the World but continued to run it through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer...
...story runs on in this manner to tell of sick being left to die, of aged beaten into submission, of inedible food, of medication by inexperienced and brutal attendants; no horror is absent, and the fact that it is told by the attendants themselves is eloquent proof of its veracity. Tam-many's record is long, but on no page is written more blood and suffering...
Having finished his new book, an introduction tot he Jews entitled "How Odd of God", Lewis Browne has left the proof reading to his publishers and gone off to the South Seas to forget all about the "Jewish problem". I want to go some place", he writes, "Where no one wears brown shirts, or silver ones, or indeed any shirts at all." He expects to spend several weeks cruising in Polynesia, and will return in time to keep a series of lecture engagements in the last of April...
Further figures to prove that students are not satisfied with anything below 90 proof, show that Rye whiskey, Gin, Rum and Brandy follow in that order on the preferred list. Running a poor second to Scotch, Rye has tallied a score of 35, while Gin and Rum find themselves in a deadlock for third with 19 votes apiece. Leading the list of favorite brands of Rye, "Shady Oak," and Hiram Walker's "Canadian Club" are fighting it out for top honors with "Guggenheim" and "G & W". "Felton's" and "Bacardi" always favorite brands of Rum have not lost their supremacy...
...with the healthy sperm of a non-agouti black buck. Finally they were implanted in the right Fallopian tube of a New Zealand Red doe which had been rendered pseudopregnant by a sterile mating. The dark grey color of the bunnies, born 33 days later, was proof they did not owe their existence to an accidental fertilization of their red foster-mother...