Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would appreciate your telling me where I can secure a pamphlet, treatise or book on Dr. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I am not interested so much in the proof submitted to substantiate the theory as I am in discussion of what the theory is. I am not particularly interested in holding a girl on my lap for an hour or sitting on a hot stove for one minute...
...from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof the fact that an English friend had found Sinclair Lewis novels in homes throughout the U. S. "uncut." As Americans know, all trade editions of Mr. Lewis' novels, and nearly all U. S. novels, are machine cut, defy detection as to whether they have been read...
Attempts last week to interpellate Prime Minister Laval's Government about the loan brought a smash vote. By an overwhelming majority of 555 to 11 the Government's action in furthering the loan was barred from debate. Never was there better proof of the power of wealth...
This feeling, that to exert oneself overmuch is a proof of inferiority, is found in so many nations and so many ages that the Public Schools can only take a small share of originating responsibility. But this must be said--that howevermuch the feeling may be found in other people, the typical Public School Boy has it so strongly that it amounts to an inhibition...
What brought loudest public condemnation down upon Jean Norris' haughty head was proof that she had altered the steno graphic record of a case which was about to be appealed on the ground of an unfair trial. Mary Disena Labello was up on a prostitution charge. It was getting late in the afternoon. Mary Labello's attorney complained he had been in court since 10 a. m. The official record read as follows...