Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...
...gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination." Its summary: "There was something of Cole Blease in him, and 'Cotton Tom Heflin, Al Smith and Hiram Johnson. . . . He was a force to be reckoned with." Above a reproduction of the original Tribune galley-proof, "Big Bill's" campaign managers wrote: "This biography . . . undoubtedly represents what the Tribune really thinks about Thompson. It was willing to tell the truth if he were dead...
...professions. The Herald Tribune is heavily committed to the G. O. P. but its voice is quick and loud in criticism of its party, especially during the present Administration. Manned by alert, enterprising editors, it has made itself a daily bible for young executives as well as aging Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write as he pleases, generally when he pleases, under his own signature, much as his volubly independent Harvard classmate Heywood Broun writes for the New York World-Telegram...
...publication of the text, which misrepresented the actual findings of the committee. Presidential interference, it is implied, was responsible for the abandonment of its first stand in opposition to continuing constitutional prohibition as it now exists and the consequent substitution of a directly contrary conclusion. Lippmann interprets this as proof that the administration is adhering to the policy of nullification, where the drys have their jaw and the wets have, their liquor...
...Their proof depends upon the abstrusities of quantum physics. An analogy simplifies the idea...