Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
Quebec. Observers found the greatest proof of the strength of Conservative Bennett in the "Miracle of Quebec." Since the War, the French-speaking province of Quebec has been Canada's "Solid South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT...
...Empress Zita and her followers are not attempting to make Kaiser Karl a Saint. Catholicism recognizes three degrees of sanctity: Venerable X, Blessed Y, Saint Z. Both the last two degrees require proof of at least two miracles. Blessed Y may be venerated in certain designated churches, Saint Z must be venerated in all churches...
...extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
Rare example of a depression-proof industry was shown by reports that American Chicle Co., gum-makers, would do as well as last year...