Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
...Blue Eagle's boss, then to anti-New Dealers in general when he began writing his United Feature column, and currently to the New Deal itself, of which he has become a severe and irascible critic. On his first headache pill program the General gave proof that he had not lost his punch...
Since the measure of a newspaper columnist's worth nowadays seems to be the amount of time he devotes to the radio, the old cavalryman's advent on the air was accepted by his friends as proof that he had journalistically arrived. Simultaneously United Feature proudly announced that it had sold him to his 49th paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Italy and Germany agreed some years ago to cooperate for the peace of the world (TIME, June 19, 1933, et ante). Dormant though it has lain, this Pact still exists, is one of the boojums with which Stalin frightens Russians from time to time, pointing to it as a "proof" that there is a Capitalist league against the Soviets. In Paris the present Chautemps Cabinet of the Left was again rocked last week by a fresh severe fall of the franc. With the Paris Exposition drawing to its close, wiseacres expected an end to the "political truce" France has observed...
...year-old Ronney Householder, who grew up with the sport and has been carrying his doodlebug around to races in a specially built truck for four years, his $1,500 share of the prize money was the biggest he had ever won. To his colleagues it was conclusive proof that their diminutive sport was rapidly coming...