Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Connecticut Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should...
...allowance of such a plea would make it possible for the owner of a gambling establishment or bawdy house to claim immunity from prosecution and the right to continue in such illegal business upon proof of its operation for a number of years without interference by the police...
...reward for the most recent killing of the Lamp Post, and its payment was proof enough to skeptical Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...
...finally adrenalin to constrict the small blood vessels and send a rush of necessary blood to the heart. In half an hour little Robert stirred, whimpered, opened his eyes. Next day he cried, suckled, belched as lustily as ever. Little Robert's accident last week furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that 1) babies are tough, 2) superficial signs of death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby...
...much could be accomplished by a fully awakened common effort against hunger, slums and sickness?" The philosophic Washington Post considered Warde "a modern Faust" who "did not begrudge payment for the brief period of power granted him." The New York Herald Tribune, ever Republican, saw in Warde striking proof "that civilization is not the product of external rules and compulsions but of individual consent." To Hearst's New York Mirror, the helplessness of the people who watched Warde symbolized ''the numbed futility of the millions of peoples all over the world who pray for a return...