Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denny details which the delighted Times picked as most meriting cogitation: "The anxiety that broods over Moscow was painfully palpable the other night at a diplomatic reception. Dozens of faces of Russians we were accustomed to seeing were missing. Everyone was watching for confirmation or proof of the falsity of the rumors that this or that high official who ordinarily would have been there had been arrested. And many so reported did not come. 'It is like being in the midst of a bubonic plague,' said a foreign woman guest from the Far East, 'watching...
...dangerously," lost his right hand fighting against the Ethiopians. For the Spanish crisis he had a simple, clear-cut remedy-Italy must make war on France and Britain at once. As is usual when Firebrand Farinacci ignites himself, the Italian Government denied all responsibility, cited the repudiated article as "proof of Italian liberty of the press." Although Britain, too, loves freedom of the press, British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond protested so vigorously that the Italian Government ordered the entire edition containing Farinacci's outburst suppressed...
...Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan Government, General Garcia purred: "I treated him with the same kindness I showed all other persons. In fact, my mercy resulted...
...immediately after the announcement that almost half of the Freshman applicants were rejected. It suggested that the University regulate the size, of incoming Freshman classes and left to next year's Council the task of carrying on the investigation. The consistent repetition of "investigation" within these lines is excellent proof of the Council's alertness; no student can do other than hope its example will become a precedent...
...eagerness with which these men have been employed is significant of the need which exists. It is, furthermore, proof of the fact that public administrators are coming to recognize that the control of traffic is not a casual problem nor one which can be solved satisfactorily by untrained personnel. One of the most hopeful signs is the fact that a number of the graduates have been given positions in jurisdictions where they are not residents and where no conceivable political influence could have been brought to bear upon their selection...