Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...
...left unpaid debts. To Olga Plepar, medium, she went, talked to the spirit of Geza Barsony, her dead father. He gave her a list of creditors, with amounts owed to each. To the creditors she went, paid out her fortune to the last pengo (18?) though there was no proof of any loans. To Medium Plepar went the police, informed by Irene Barsony's fiance; Medium Plepar & her creditor accomplices were apprehended, returned one-third of the Barsony money...
...first two vertical lines, reading downward "etaoin shrdlu," often appear in print. Having felt himself make a slip, the linotypist will run his finger down those two lines to make an obviously pied line of type which the proof staff will surely, but does not always, catch...
...issue between Mara and Tunney was simple enough. Mara claimed 10% of Tunney's pay for fighting Dempsey in 1926, and 25% of all his earnings thereafter. He had proof that Tunney offered him the 25%, but was vague about what it was for. Tunney claimed that he hired Mara to arrange the fight in New York and that Mara failed. But the private altercation was of small interest compared to the figures, publicly detailed for the first time, of how much money an important heavyweight makes. Tunney, who had been a shipping clerk at $18 a week...
...Cambridge School of the Drama is still a stepchild; its attachment to the University should attend the proof of its success. If it manages to satisfy the national honor and still find the Naval Science Department another place to drill, it will be still further on the road to permanent achievement...