Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly enjoy your clear and fool-proof accounts of the progress of the national election each week. I note that some people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these...
...Stars. As proof of an economic-upturn, President Hoover cited ten stars in the murk since the Depression's low: 1) return from abroad of $300,000,000 in gold; 2) return of $250,000,000 in currency from domestic hoarding; 3) 20% increase in bond values; 4) 10% increase in manufacturing production; 5) increased building contracts; 6) a jump in weekly car loading from 490,000 to 650,000; 7) 22% increase in foreign trade; 8) improved agricultural prices ("though they are still hideously low") ; 9) "bank failures have almost ceased"; 10) increased manufacturing employment...
...months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...
...regarded this hesitancy as the result of sitting on the fence too long, which would seem likely to result in emasculation. The glaring grammatical errors in this review seemed to suggest that another factor was involved: the sheer inability to write English. Assuming that these are due to slipshod proof-reading, and passing over such phrases as "ratiocinative circumstances" etc. we come to the real meaning of the review...
...romantic operettas are compounded of essentially the same ingredients, but it requires the touch of the master to mix them, and flavor to the right taste. That such a long piece as "show Boat" does not wear on the spectator is ample proof that Ziegfield knew how to alternate his music, his choruses, and his skits, and above all he knew the settings to render each most effective. The scenes before the tent of the shimmy dances, in the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago, the aberations of Captain Andy Hawks, and the hawklike watchfulness of his termagant wife...