Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen billion dollars added to the public debt. Eleven million unemployed left on base." Noticeably elated by the success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone...
...Devil's A Sissy" at Loew's State is proof conclusive that the movies have gone a long way since Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy." The same jolly hoodlumism and almost the same human interest variety of pathos still hold the fort, but "The Devil's A Sissy" is never the less very good drama. Freddy Bartholemew, the pampered but unspoiled child of a jaded Park Avenue millionairess divorcee, takes up a six-month residence in the tough-district home of his penniless father...
Although there was no contact work, a program consisting of intensive work on the tackling dummies, defensive drill against Army plays, and offensive dummy scrimmage gave proof that there was no letting up behind the Varsity practice fence. Throughout the defensive drill, the coaches emphasized the superior effectiveness of brain over brawn stopping a tricky attack...
...forms the underlying and unifying theme of this miscellany, is, according to Voltaire, like the fire on our hearth; we fetch it at our neighbor's we light it at home, we hand it on to others, and it belongs to everyone. "Harvard et la France", is in itself proof of the persistence and intensity of this flame. It is not only a fitting testimonial of respect from Joan Sorbon to John Harvard, but a substantial contribution to cultural history...
...general the Robinson-Patman Act puts the beneficiaries of discrimination on the same footing as the donors; transfers the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense; attempts to substitute specific prohibitions for the generalities on price discrimination contained in the old anti-trust laws...