Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are still thriftily hesitating to uniform themselves. Just now they are "practicing," driving about at night in completely lightless ambulances to hypothetical bomb spots...
Otto Heydrick announced that he had incontrovertible proof that Secret Agents Stevens and Best had been two cogs in the infernal plot-how, perhaps coming in a later volume...
Yale game upsets are a thing of the past, and now the CRIMSON seer can turn to more pleasant duties. Selecting All-Star elevens is lots of fun and there never is any proof that you were absolutely wrong. But here's a last batch of games and scores before the next football season opens about forty weeks from now. Boston College will reign supreme in New England tonight, paced by the stoutest line in the East. Navy 7 Army 0 Boston College 13 Holy Cross 7 Stanford 14 Dartmouth 7 Duquesne 13 Detroit 7 Fordham 20 N.Y.U. 7 Georgia...
...executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
...Life of Greece, therefore, Will Durant bears the burden of proof. His subject is one which fed and instructed the best minds of several robust centuries (16th, 17th, 18th) and stimulated the liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh...