Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfectly natural that-with a multitude of banks operated by inexperienced men, far too many farm and real estate loans were granted. It is a survival of an almost medieval and perfectly natural belief that since land is tangible it must be a safe investment. The best proof of the fallacy of the idea is the fact that in Boston, where few real estate loans have been granted, the banks are absolutely liquid: within a few hours notice nearly every bank in Boston could pay every cent of its debts and still be solvent...
Hagen speared the fear-proof Siegfried in the back, Brünnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...apparent that the general examination should be a prerequisite to the A.B. degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which it has the right to require that every man should give definite proof of his mastery of at least one field; in consideration of the dull student who has been permitted to enter and to pay for his education the same price charged every other man, the college is bound to give him, or even to force upon him, every possible opportunity for improvement. To deny...
...assembly shows every indication of echoing the note of non-recognition independently sounded by Mr. Hoover and Mr. Stimson. That this will remove us from an embarrassing and anomalous situation is in no real sense creditable to our foreign policy. The significant feature of the entire proceeding is the proof we have given of international bad manners which, without the League support, might have had serious consequences...
...letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which a map of the world appears according to a Bostonian. Of course, it is a map of Boston...