Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conferred with such eminent students of the stratosphere as Regener, Hergesell, Hansen. His instruments were inadequate; Regener's devices would have permitted accurate measurements. Science already knew as much about the cosmic ray as Piccard could learn at firsthand. All told, his most important contribution was the proof that men can live in an airtight container. Those findings might be useful to the men who are building a stratosphere airplane in the Junkers plant at Dessau...
Next, although the Deutschland was where she was, President von Hindenburg produced and read his christening address. "And now glide down into your element and join the ocean!" read HINDENBURG, a hero so great that no one snickered. "Do your duty there! May it be to give proof of German work and German efficiency and to protect the Fatherland. Always keep your flag clean and high in honor! Then you will be worthy of the name which I give you-Deutschland...
...Concrete proof that this year's baseball team is wielding the hickory with better effect than last was obtained yesterday afternoon when the compiled batting averages for 15 games showed the team to be hitting for .297 as compared to .264, the mark achieved by the 1930 nine at mid-season...
Founder Shafer scarcely knew what had happened before he had an organization on his hands (now numbering about 1,000 with additional Lofts in Boston, Syracuse & Detroit). Membership requirement: proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist...
...acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...