Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SOME BURIED CAESAR - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Attempted barbecue of a championship bull cooks the goose of two upState New Yorkers. Not expert-proof, but Nero Wolf's sleuthing and Archie Goodwin's cracks make it Rex Stout's best...
...long history the Catholic Church has made uncommonly few mistakes, and I believe the choice of Cardinal Pacelli as Pope Plus's successor is proof of its careful judgment," stated Arthur D. Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, in an interview late yesterday...
...Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...believe you made the point that a 600 percent increase in attendance was proof that the course is a "snap," When the attendance rises in several years from two students to a total of well nigh thirteen, then one may well suspect that insidious forces are at work. The fact that the Department of Far Eastern Languages has increased its teaching staff and facilities fifty per cent within those years and that it is rapidly coming to be regarded as the center of Far Eastern Studies in America should not cause us to hesitate in holding this view...