Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many new features are incorporated in both lines. All cars will all be equipped with shutter-proof glass, rear gas tanks, automatic shock-absorbers, silent transmissions, and roomier bodies...
...authors complain about the tedious slowness with which their books are printed. Catalogues and other routine work, occupying about a fourth of the yearly output of the presses, delay the publication of more important books. The proof readers of the Press are often inaccurate and a large burden of the work falls upon the writer. Because the cost of printing is unconscionably high, remuneration to the author is small or altogether lacking. Moreover the type of the books is often redistributed after a small edition is published, before there is time to discover whether demand warrants reprints...
...trade-unionism from the anti-trust law. Strikes were still broken by Federal injunctions charging interstate conspiracies and monopolies. Labor leaders were still jailed without hearings for contempt. The "yellow-dog" contract spread and throve. Bitterly disappointed, union labor demanded that Congress do its job over again, enact fool-proof legislation through which hostile employers could not weave their way to the Federal courts...
...shows that he has achieved the honor of fellowship in the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and the more simple F. Z. S., indicating fellowship in the Zoological Society of London, with the privilege of free entrance into the London Zoo six days a week. "No proof of achievement of any kind is required of the individual who wishes to break into these scientific circles. . . . But the degrees look lovely, in a row, and to the unsophisticated they imply a lot." The leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from...
...were time enough spent, some worthy subject could always be found. But, the question rises, would that process be really representative? There's no denying that we, as a group, hold ideas which, though not lofty nor all-embracing, interest and influence us. "Hash parties" or "bull sessions" stand proof to this. And after all, the world isn't really fooled into believing we are always serious. So let's be ourselves and dare to express some of our more frivolous ideas. Radcliffe Daily...