Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been an outstanding figure in the Democratic Party ever since he was elected Governor of New York and his recent landslide in the gubernatorial election where he piled up great pluralities over his Republican opponent, not only in New York City but in the upstate counties was a convincing proof of his great vote-getting power...
...room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt storage battery, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will also be situated underground...
...area cleared there are three separate types of building: the private house, the great palace, and the temple. It is in the latter two and particularly from the temple that most material of artistic value has come to light. Here the Nuzians gave abundant and convincing proof of their skill as artisans and of their understanding and feeling as real artists...
...Government officials here hint they would like to know what the Brazilian government promised in return for Mr. Stimson's benediction. The British have had long experience in such transactions, and take it for granted that the State Department is not entirely altruistic this time." Prisoner Proof. In the actual theatre of Brazil's Civil War-an area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar...
...matter of fact nothing could be farther from the truth. And the proof of this statement will be entirely unnecessary to any one who once tries to diagram the plays of the opposing teams; or to any one who after the game tries to tell you how each man on the field played, whether he was carrying out his assignments, whether he was getting the best of the man opposite him, how he was blocking, and if his tackling was crisp or just so so. Of course not even the coaches can be expected to see all these things...