Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...
There is little doubt that such a vigorous policy, if conscientiously adhered to, will remove the breath--at least of contagion, from Boston and its environs, and be a convincing proof of purity to the Tercentenniary sight-seer--provided he doesn't stay too long...
...present educational system. All concerned with this situation realize that something must be done but no one has been willing to make sufficient concessions to effect any material changes. The College Entrance Examination Board is working on its angle of the situation in trying to make their tests cram-proof, but until it works in cooperation with the preparatory schools and colleges its efforts will be of little avail...
This version would reconcile the statistical proof with the more prevalent undergraduate opinion that ninety-five per cent of "the Radcliffe women" do not marry at all. Cordially yours, E. Jandron...
This is a mistake. At first glance, one detects something wrong here. And the reason is that the "statistical proof" is carelessly (?) worded. Properly rendered, the statistic reads thus: ".... 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women who marry at all marry Harvard...