Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said he would lay his head on the block, asked the newshawks to forgive him because it was the first time in four years he had given one of their number an exclusive story. Because the President was believed to have "inspired" the Krock story, even read its proof, some newshawks wondered whether the "John" of the anecdote should not have been "Arthur." Others suggested it was John Nance Garner, John Bankhead, or perhaps John Doe. Secretary Stephen Early said he did not know who "John...
...ceremony is performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury that any vital mistake will just about have to be made by this Primate of All England. Last week the possibility that motion pictures, the first ever to be taken of a Coronation ceremony in the Abbey, may afford proof of a slip was masterfully dealt with in London. The five cinema firms involved were called on the carpet, forced to promise they will release not a single inch of film disapproved of by the Duke and the Archbishop, who were appointed the official censors. Since they cannot be expected to rush...
Brookfield Dumb-Bell lived only in John Taintor Foote's classic story, Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, but last week from Georgia came proof that Author Foote's tale was no fantasy. Out for quail with a friend's three bird dogs were Paul T. Chance, an Augusta lawyer, and his two sons. After a covey rise, some of the single birds settled in a small ravine beside a railroad culvert. When Brilliant Joe, an 8-year-old setter, reached the top of the railroad embankment, he saw that one of his mates, a young pointer...
...working for the Trane Co. We are working with the Trane Co. for a common good-yours and ours. We realize that this procedure may seem unusual, but we'd like to have you know just the way we feel. The very culmination of this message is proof of its sincerity." The message was signed by every Trane employe from Gottfried Abegglen to Leonard Zielke...
...most important textual changes shown is that by Coleridge in his proof-copy of "The Sibylline Leaves," on a verse of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." After heavily crossing out the verse...