Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until someone accumulates convincing proof to the contrary, the greatest single cause of divorce will continue to be marriage. This is a platitude to which any benedict would subscribe. But Butler University in Indianapolis has evolved a contrary principle. It has resolved to offer a course in Marriage, to consider the "physical, psychological, economic, social, domestic, and religious" aspects of wedded life...
...called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
...sympathizer with Soviet Russia and yet, in fairness to it, I wish to inquire whether you have any source of proof or good authority for the following statement (TIME, Dec. 19, p. 13, col. 1), ''The official Soviet reply was . . . flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans...
...business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding the line, came closest to an exception...
Last week at the final 1932 caucus of the Government's "People's Party" or Kuomintang (TIME, Dec. 26), Dr. Soong, who graduated from Harvard in 1915, presented his historic, balanced budget with this laconic, Bostonian statement: "Gentlemen, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! . . . Our credit is enhanced, our bonds are selling 20% higher than last year. . . . The striking progress thus achieved offsets all hostile propaganda that China is in chaos with a tottering Government...