Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...totality of its streets can hold all its citizens. No human mind can comprehend more than a fragment of the complex and minutely specialized activities of its citizens. There is a special name for power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions of people a day to the city's centre, in New York cost the city 3? over every 5? fare. Such transportation improvements as Wacker Drive in Chicago...
...merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...
...changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard labor on a real construction...
...converting the old single-track railroad line and its 80-mile string of ocean bridges into a 20-foot, two-lane highway between Lower Matecumbe Key and Key West. Widened and decked over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among them hundreds of former cigar makers...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...