Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Analysis of fifteen language, ancient and modern gives statistical proof that this new law of language applies to syllables as well as words. With mechanical accuracy the more common cases of inflected nouns in Sanskrit are accented on the stem, while less used cases, genitive and dative for example, are accented on the endings to aid the hearer's ear. "For man's tendency to laziness," says Zipf, "will prevent his accenting any element in language which his hearer will understand with cut accent...
...Physics textbook, to be used in future science courses at Harvard, will be issued by its author and compiler. Professor Frederick Alfred Saunders of the University Physics department, by next May. The book is now in galley proof form and is undergoing checking and revision; the title has not been decided upon...
...labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used for drinking purposes...
...awaited proof of Soviet perfidy...
...Mexican relations have not for a generation been so cordial as now. True, the President-Elect of Mexico, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was accused of "going to Wall Street and Washington for his orders" when he paid his goodwill visit to President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 30), but there is no proof that he ever received any orders...