Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special groups, each containing a number of choice items of a particular writer. One of these is the selection from the Rupert Brooke collection of R. W. Baker, Jr. '34, which includes a first edition of the war poet's first volume of verse, printed in 1911, original proof sheets of the same book, an autograph manuscript of one of the sonnets and Brooke's copy of a first edition of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts." First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts". First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of O'Henry...
Skepticism greeted a tale of Tibet brought to London last week by one Jill Cossley-Blatt, Englishwoman, and a Dr. Irvine Baird, Canadian. But the pair claimed that they had proof of a tribe who live in a cranny of the Himalayas and "are white and appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled...
...amount of discussion about spring football was out of all proportion to its importance. Some detected in these few days of practice proof that players thought of nothing but goalposts and grand-stands from one November to another. Others pointed out that crew, track, and tennis are practised in all seasons simply because players like a favorite sport too well to neglect it during three quarters of the year...
...difficult to cavil. The delegate will probably do little good to the conference for it is impossible for him to possess the facts which might make him effective. But he will learn the difficulties with which foreign negotiations are fraught and he will, if appointed, lend concrete proof to the fact that American youth is, at least, interested in the peace of the world...
Which is what every sizable U. S. city has been attempting to prove as rapidly as possible.* But Kansas City's method of proof was different from most. Instead of selling expensive subscriptions and then giving a concert, it gave the concert first. The Chamber of Commerce and civic organizations persuaded Conductor Arnold Volpe, once a Kansas Cityzen himself, to recruit an orchestra of 88 musicians. Then it announced two concerts for last week, average price 25? so that no music lover would have to stay home on account of Depression. Few did. Four thousand of them made their...