Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives. For the first time in my 25 years as a member I have seen a majority leader, with a majority of 4-to-1, rise to appeal to his members to sign a petition to discharge his own Rules Committee from consideration of his legislation. That is definite proof of the statement I have often made: that the Democrats cannot efficiently run the House of Representatives...
...have always regarded the exchanges as the scales upon which that great national resource, invested capital, is weighed and evalued. Scales of such importance must be tamper-proof with no concealed springs-and there must be no laying on of hands. Such scales must not be utilized by the inside few to the detriment of the outside many...
...causes of the illness have been discovered, although many Freshmen blame their indispositions on Union food. No proof, however, has been advanced to prove that the food served at supper Tuesday was at fault. Dr. Edward G. Huber of the School of Public Health will investigate possible sources of the infection at the Union Dining Halls...
...proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
...squarely beaten. It was beaten by eleven men and their replacements who on that day were eleven All-Americans. They were All-American football players incidentally. Primarily they are Harvard men and students, for the high esteem in which members of the team are held off the field gives proof of their "all-roundness," while as a group they boast as notable an academic record as any comparable body in College...