Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They said Vermont was doubtful on Repeal, pointed for proof to its first prohibition law in 1852, its dry record ever since. But when the votes were counted last week it was found that Green Mountaineers stood 2-to-1 in favor of the 21st Amendment. Only about half the usual number of voters turned out for the election, nonvoters feeling that Repeal was now inevitable. With Vermont as the 25th consecutive State to turn thumbs on the 18th Amendment, about two-thirds of those voting were on record for Repeal. The popular vote to date stood...
...spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean, seamy-faced Feisal's heart. One afternoon in Berne, having consulted with his Foreign Minister General Nuri Pasha and his brother Prince Ali on the prospect of the League of Nations investigating the Assyrian...
...Brooks and Pettey had also landed. (Talburt and I lost our chance to get any because the others had lost all our tackle to about a dozen whoppers they didn't land; but we got ours on a similar expedition the week before.) Now if you need further proof of this tale of piscatorial prowess, here's Provensen pictured with his shark; also a picture of that hero resting from his arduous labors reading my blood-stained copy of TIME. MARTIN CODEL...
...Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that more than 200 horses had been drugged on U. S. tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti...
Along with the development of Oak Ridge station and the increased collection of plates, a collection numbering five hundred thousand, it became imperative to construct a fire-proof building for their storage. In 1931 the erection of the Astrophotographic Building of the Harvard Observatory began. It was dedicated in the spring...