Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late John Sharp Williams retired from public life aged 69, died at 78. Virginia's Senator Glass is hale, vigorous, clear-minded at 76. That he continues to oppose President Roosevelt's monetary policies, as does many another U. S. citizen, may scarcely be taken as proof of senility. As for advertising "trickery": Are any other readers unable to see at once that the Heinz copy is advertising...
...shoot my way out," sneered Desperado John Dillinger when after his ignominious capture in Tucson, Ariz., he was brought back to Indiana and locked up in Crown Point's jail to be tried for murder (TIME, Feb. 5). Sheriff Lillian Holley, mistress of Crown Point's escape-proof jail, also made a promise: "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle...
...aviation companies have made money. Many of the officers and corporations who originally built routes and acquired contracts are no longer the same as in the beginning. Also there has been no proof adduced that all the companies were guilty of collusion and fraud. Nevertheless all companies are being treated alike--the innocent and the guilty...
...come not from Dijon but from Paris. Raymond Prince, son of the murdered judge, cried bravely: "In spite of the terrible responsibility it involves, which may cost me my life, I am determined to tell all I know. I feel certain that this was a political crime. My proof is that my father on the day following his death was to have submitted a report concerning several important personalities whose names I intend to make public within a few days...
Such was the challenge flung last week in Cleveland at conferring members of the National Vocational Guidance Association. Challenger was Research Associate Irving Lorge of Columbia's Teachers College. His "proof" was a survey conducted in New York City under Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike...