Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 12, the first definitive proof that the solar corona is not made up chiefly of flaming coronal streamers alone, as has been supposed, but is an even, globular blanket covering the sun more than a million miles deep, was revealed by a conference of astronomers at Harvard Observatory...
...hard to make themselves heard above the blasting of six and eight inch guns the bursting of 100-lb. bombs, the Augusta's officers held an investigation to decide whether the one pounder that killed Freddie John came from a Chinese or Japanese muzzle. Prudently they decided that proof was impossible...
...over whelming relief, and laughter almost drowned out the angry voice of Senator Guffey still demanding to be recorded as against the Bill. With supreme assurance the Vice President dismissed the demand by shouting back: "The Senator's statement will go in the Record as sufficient proof that he is recorded against it. . . . All Senators can extend their remarks in the Record on the subject." A moment later the Senate recessed for the week end, and at 2:26 p.m., just 59 minutes after Senator McCarran had taken the floor, the job the Senate has been trying...
...exciting Christian belief in God's solicitude for the individual soul was something Harry Patterson worked out for himself. It was a limited achievement because Harry never got much farther than the knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew...
...lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward, Ann, a little-girl Galatea from the London slums, and was growing as fond of her as of a stray Puppy-Rogers' scheme was to get settled in Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage...