Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the standpoint of correctness in either spelling or proof reading, the word is "cames" meaning H-shaped lead strips, serving much the same purpose in stained glass fabrication as do muntins in ordinary wood or steel windows...
Although Christians have had to believe in these tenets without any empirical proof of their truth, Wild said that "scientific and historical approaches to the Scriptures have not sounded the death-knell of faith." Wild went through the Apostles' Creed and discussed each article, bringing in the beliefs of other religions when they were relevant...
...about twelve cases out of a hundred the female of mixed cattle twins is normal, and able to conceive. This is assumed to be due to the fact that in these cases the fetal circulatory systems remain independent, though proof of this assumption is obviously very hard to obtain. The fertility of these particular female twins would thus be exactly analogous to the situation in human mixed twins, and in species normally bearing litters where there is no common blood supply and where both sexes are usually normal...
...proof that Producer Abbott's sympathetic impulses are guided by a hard head or a hot hunch, Broadway wiseacres pointed to his phenomenal success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about...
...outstanding characteristic of the book might be said to be its factual presentation of material. The author does not ask or expect his readers to accept any of his theories without proof. He presents us with the facts which resulted from his experiments. The book is accompanied by a set of cards used at Duke University and the reader may conduct the same tests with subjects...