Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began. For his Wartime service he was knighted...
...White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand-an $11,000 model of Andrew Jackson's home The Hermitage erected before the White House, where the President stood exposed in a sort of showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when...
...Reading the will put Surrogate Delehanty in fine rhetorical fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there is proof, too, of an internal emotion which possessed the draftsman and which at the time of composition must have disinclined him to any prosaic inquiry as to what the language really meant." Then he told the confused Philadelphia lawyer that the provisions of the will set up separate trusts...
...hours of intensive research, and elementary carpentry produced a fool proof "thing" by means of which mail, packages, and whatever else the fates may bring can be deposited inside the office without (1) the postman unlocking the door, (2) allowing a trespasser (see cut) to remove the mail, or (3) cutting a hole in the door the size of which would undermine the building. (Check one of these three...
Lowell House waitresses were forced to over work yesterday noon, and the whole affair was due to the laxity of the proof-reader who goes over the daily House menus...