Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have felt slighted because you failed to mention "Wednesday matinee" in New York when the "Undefended Divorce Calendar" is called in our Supreme Court. Although adultery is the sole ground of divorce in the Empire State, our Courts have held that actual coition need not be proved, but that proof of the inclination and the opportunity is sufficient. Consequently the large audience which always attends the "matinee" has its curiosity sated by a continuous reiteration of the drama "The Time the Place and the Girl...
...events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed to have taken a bribe...
...Western Electric. Chicago Teletype manufactures printing telegraph equipment which transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan and proof room in Chicago.) While both Western Union and Postal Telegraph & Cable have been increasingly large Teletype customers, the Bell System has more than 10,000 in use, many for its own system, many over leased wires. Another teletype product is the new high-speed stock ticker. The company last year...
...Haselbrunner would set up a rigid, whim-proof A and agree to abide by it. He would then have it pressed on phonograph discs for world distribution. He would broadcast it at intervals much as Greenwich Time is broadcast...
Having its foundations in a past which considered the academic treatment of business matters incongruous and be heath the dignity of a university, the Harvard Business School has received in this latest gift an undeniable proof of the confidence that modern business has in its teaching methods. An organization such as the one under consideration recapitulates the distrusting altitude of a more conservative past...