Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There, bending over inky tables, amid torn newspapers, fried egg sandwiches, smudged proof sheets and pint milk bottles full of coffee, they read morning papers for late news items and about dawn put TIME...
...Mosquito Abatement District know the difference between a mosquito drainage ditch and a hole in the ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches get stagnant and mosquito-filled. It is hoped...
This was proved nearly two years ago in Manhattan, when the Federal Theatre successfully produced Murder in the Cathedral. The proof still seemed valid last week when the English production of the play opened in Manhattan after 600 performances abroad...
Raids and arrests made each issue a crisis. Once a German policeman, directing a raid on a trembling printer's shop, sat down on a type form of Free Belgium, almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...
...that he seems secretive, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton of Johns Hopkins went to Philadelphia last week where he cautiously urged doctors not to use a vaccine which he developed as a pneumonia preventive* (TIME, Sept. 13) until he has better proof of its efficacy...