Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first objection is that so far the public has not been favored with any proof of the Crusaders' activity. The organization promised to send out periodic bulletins telling of its work, and this it has not done, doubtless with good reason. It has undertaken no propaganda work except to increase its membership. It is not, as far as we can tell, of any influence politically or otherwise, in spite of its large membership. It had good financial backing to begin with, and to have nothing to show for $500, 000 is not so much a reflection on the honesty...
...Dartmouth experiment succeeds, it will be like adding a year to a man's life. But it must be remembered that the success of twenty dean-picked men is no proof that schoolboys at large are not better off with the sobering sword of the board examinations hanging above their heads...
...Chicago, Mary Beckman haled Rudolph Beckman to court for nonsupport. As proof that Rudolph was her husband Mary Beckman produced an unused marriage license 25 years old, explained: ''That's all we ever had." The judge lent Rudolph & Mary Beckman $2.85 toward a new $3 license, married them in court with their seven children as witnesses...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...addition to these, there are a complete set of English and American first editions, the original manuscript of "Benefit of Clergy", presented by Amy Lowell, the original manuscript of "Recessional", and many letters of Kipling's father, as well as the copyright pamphlets and corrected proof sheets...