Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affairs is not entirely impossible even though, as your historical comment indicates, it may be quite unlikely, is borne out by the fact that a few years ago a Louisville drug store used to offer, on the occasion of what were called 1? sales, two quarts of excellent, 100 proof, five-year-old Bourbon for $1.01 which on the old time bartender's calculation of 20 drinks to a quart would figure somewhere in the neighborhood of 2½? a drink...
...stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis Institute of Music. Proof of the company's security and artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time...
...outcome of the recent general election in England is a conclusive proof of the fundamental soundness of the English nation. The National party, which is itself overwhelmingly Conservative, swept all opposition aside, and demonstrated that in time of stress that the solid citizens realized the futility of Socialistic Utopia, and reverted to the sound Conservatism of Gladstone...
...older and better tested system of free high schools has been similarly overwhelmed, 50 per cent of all the children of proper high school age entering and spending from one to four years without compulsion of any kind. This is proof of a widespread faith in education, but it is also proof that Jefferson's idea of ruthless selection has not deeply affected its theory or its operation. There are 13,951 high schools of all classes in the United States, of which 632 enroll over 500 pupils, 278 enroll over 1,000 pupils, while the Los Angeles Commercial High...
...mask. A depot of masks should be available in every community. Those who cannot handle masks -children, invalids, the aged, the wounded -should have cellar refuges. Large cities should have several refuge districts with a protected cellar in each. Every new, large building should have a gas-proof basement. The cellars should be ventilated through tall chimneys. This is essential, because poison gases discharged from either ground or airplane tanks are heavy, settle close to earth. Outside of each community there should be safety zones, protected like Red Cross stations by international agreement...