Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussed was Professor Roland McMillan Harper's striking discovery that there is a definite correlation between the ownership of motor cars and the prevalence of divorce. Professor Harper, geographer, now research professor of economics at the University of Georgia, adduced as proof that, in the U. S., wealth, motor cars and divorces have all increased in recent years faster than the population, and that they all are more prevalent in cities than in country districts...
When interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter late last night, Brooks admitted the absence of the Ibis. "We missed it this morning, but have no definite proof of the robbers," he said. "However, we are not worrying about it as they are sure to return it." He refused to discuss the value of the bird...
...action of the American Unitarian Association in adopting a resolution to promote the birth control movement deserves nothing but commendation. The finger of stigma pointed by modernists at petrified Orthodexy has for once received sufficient proof to the contrary. Any technical discussion of the pros and cons regarding birth control properly belongs to the physician. The qualification to be introduced is only that it should be extended to the general practitioner as well as the highly specialized medicinal student of research...
...order thus to pack the problem of the world into a neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent...
...platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness for the post of Viceroy that the saintnapping was accomplished with such masterly finesse...