Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of all that can be done certain departments are at times in the ascendency, while others seem on the down grade. Yet the general level at Harvard remains high, and the Sorokin appointment furnishes proof that Harvard is not asleep to her most vital need, good teachers...
...note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...
...under fee by a client, still owes his first duty to the State! He must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...
...whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...
...must, however, take issue with the indictments contained in his communication. It brief, the Bulletin cannot yet retract anything it said in the editorial referred to, although proof to the contrary will lead to a frank apology. But we must have proof of some of the rather sensational statements Mr. Kreger makes. This spectre of graduate interference with Harvard athletics should either be put where the spotlight will shine on it or be pushed into the wings and kept there. . . . These are serious charges which Mr. Kreger makes and he should substantiate them. Perhaps he will be willing to give...