Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After battling terrific odds in her voyages to little America, her ice-scarred bow and hull give ample evidence of the clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that...
...respects that it would be idle for an American to lecture to French classes. Nevertheless, the Centre offers one course in French and one in German each year, usually a series of lectures by prominent business men; in this way those who profess knowledge of these languages may give proof of their ability...
...contention that the various States should restrict their shooting seasons, forbid the use of automatic shotguns, live decoys and baiting in fields. As Dr. Pearson might like some proof of what happens to ducks in Arkansas let him read the September issue of Field & Stream. Nash Buckingham writing about what he has actually seen states that 40,000 crippled and rotten ducks were found in a 450-acre field. These are the places where a little law enforcement would be useful. Can't blame the drought for such slaughter, only inhuman beings could...
Sirs: When you read proof on p. 15 of the Aug. 3 issue, did no one yelp when whiskerless Governor Murray (Oklahoma) was seen in a cut next to "Red River War," in which he was referred to as "bewhiskered?" Or do you construe the possession of a generous mustache (as has Governor Murray) as admitting the appellation "bewhiskered...
Does "most" modify "conscientious" as well as "liberal"? If such is the intention, does not TIME make a sweeping statement which may lack considerably for proof...