Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalls another story about people who ease their indignation by writing letters: Casper Milquetoast, in a fit of public spirit, wrote to the Pullman company about insects in his berth and promptly received a complimentary and apologetic letter two pages long. He proudly displayed this to his friends as proof that corporations do have souls, until some cynic discovered and pointed out to him a faint penciled note on the back: 'Send this s.o.b. the bug letter...
Cried Eccellenza Jung who was Italy's Chief Delegate: "Ah Signori! those nations which have remained faithful to gold have rendered a precious service to the world. President Roosevelt's latest step [to revalue the dollar between 50 and 60? gold is fresh proof of the wisdom of the Duce...
...observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies...
...also presented evidence that the universe is older than scientists have before calculated from studying the heavens as well as the huge star clouds or nebulae which are supposed to exist far out in space. His proof of this is that there have been discovered particles of solid matter, or "cosmic meteors," which are moving through space at high speed. They are far out of the paths of the meteors that are visible from the earth...
...gets grudgingly busy. Before Wynant is found, two more murders are uncovered. More conventional in plot than his earlier books and less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least a dozen murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them will feel, however, that for once Hammett's naturalism has taken him too far, when Nick...