Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the fact that the subject of the article is an outstanding idol of the hero-worshippers, is proof beyond question that the author possesses that--which in the vernacular of the street would be termed--"Plenty guts...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
First commentator on Pilot Sheridan's harrowing experience was Publisher Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram. As an authority on meteors Publisher Perry declared: "The fact that Sheridan saw the meteor disappear is conclusive proof that he was not very close to it, because most meteors cease to glow at a height of about five miles...
...against this measure. From appeals to the rights of man as stated in the Constitution to tearful notes to General Johnson claiming that such legislation would put almost a million men out of work, their speciousness saw no bounds. The harmonious swinishness of the quack doctors never saw better proof than their protest against legislation which should prove a blessing to the honest members of the drug trade...
This heroic defense of Belgium's integrity and of the safety of the allied powers has won for King Albert a reputation which the world will never forget. In ten days he had given dramatic proof to the world that there was still one King who could act like a King. And the long career so recently ended was devoted to showing his countrymen that in the hard, uncompromising, undramatic facts of government and politics Albert was still no less a royal figure...