Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
...that Amundsen is not yet alive. There is ample room to hope he will survive. The observations of Byrd and Amundsen verify the reports I made of what I found at the North Pole. I may have been some miles from the Pole, but there never will be absolute proof of the attainment of the Pole...
...book tells of proofs of survival, though it gives none. Most of it is taken up with arguments for the scientific plausibility of immortality. "We never find things going out of existence, though we do find them going out of our ken." Survivalist Lodge admits most scientists do not recognize the validity of proofs of immortality that have satisfied him; thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding...
...than the past $4 years of observation have shown them to be," declared Leon Campbell, of the Harvard Observatory staff, in an interview yesterday. "Of course, we have always known that the space occupied by our system was larger than our observations of Neptune showed, but such sudden definite proof is certainly very awing...
...They think they perceive in the attitude of President Hoover proof that he is no longer at odds with the Morgan group that opposed his nomination...