Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another proof of the necessity of planning, and a lot of people laugh about all the planning that we are doing in Washington. In the long run, taking just flood prevention as one of many examples-in the long run, we will save hundreds of millions of dollars by planning for the future." In Bowling Green, he summoned up the spirit of the era of Roosevelt II: "You cannot compare the conditions of 1932 with the conditions of 1938. I sort of sense a deep understanding, a human happiness in the hearts and in the minds of the great majority...
...Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen in the averages for more than two years." But Robert Rhea warned that though this meant that the secondary trend (wave) had changed from bear to bull, there was still no proof that the primary trend (tide) had done the same...
Nowadays the Creole stories of gentle George Washington Cable seem amiable but shrewd, are taken as patent proof that Cable loved his native New Orleans. But when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath...
...Paul Gauguin so highly that the general public gets only fugitive glimpses of them. Last week the recently renovated Brooklyn Museum contributed something new to understanding of the artist when it opened the first complete exhibition of Gauguin's graphic art, in a handsome show that gave added proof that the great Frenchman was one of the most fertile innovators of his pathbreaking time...
...Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index to 136 last week. But a 25? drop brought the listed price of steel scrap to $10.75 a ton, positive proof that the key industry of steel had no immediate upsurge ahead. And the stock market last week again turned down without even approaching the 121 level on the industrial averages, penetration of which Dow theorists would have considered significant...