Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proof of this claim was in the German-Papal concordat. It consists of 35 articles, provides notably for the Catholic education of all children of Catholic parents in Germany. In districts where Catholics are in a majority the public schools shall be Catholic. Elsewhere Catholic children will attend separate Catholic schools. Thus Pope Pius retains in Germany a firm grip on what he likes to call "the dear youth...
Once supposed to ride in a limousine with bullet-proof glass because he feared assassination, Benito Mussolini has recently taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
...famed as the Queen's. That her husband is, not Prime Minister* as would normally be the case with the leader of a party which holds an overwhelming majority-but the holder of a mere sinecure in the Cabinet, is to pious Mrs. Baldwin only one more proof that the ways of Divine Providence are cozily inscrutable. Last week, supremely confident that her Stanley could not fail, she sent him forth to face 1,200 delegates of the Central Conservative Council gathered to tackle a party issue which might decide his right to keep the name of Leader with...
Professor Bohr, who has invented a very useful description of the atom, first pointed to Professor Einstein's relativity laws which say that we can never measure absolute time. Next he referred to Professor Werner Heisenberg's proof that we cannot measure at the same instant both the speed and the position of an electron, that the more exactly we determine the speed of electrons in an atom the less certain we can be of the position of the electrons in an atom. Thus, we can never say precisely what is Cause or what is Effect. The Heisenberg...
...ideas of the two speakers are interesting proof that, if the depression has not failed to stir the political student's interest in the philosophical fundamentals of government, it has failed to give the politician courage publicly to question the old regime. If there is any lesson in the last four years, there may be reasonable doubt as to the impeccability of that regime. And it would appear the part of intelligent, educated men, coldly to examine the problem which American democracy poses and the alternatives which in invites...