Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life history as revealed in his current advertisement: "Have you Guts Enough to Gamble 30-for Proof in 7 Days that You Can Have a Body Like Mine? ... I was a sickly, skinny run-down weakling, weighing only 97 pounds. I finally got fed up with being bullied around and looked down on. THEN-I discovered my amazing secret of Dynamic Tension! This natural principle quickly developed me from a no-account runt to a perfect specimen who holds the international title 'The World's Most Perfectly Developed...
...pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses...
...evident that constant repainting would be too great a financial burden on the University, but there is no excuse for dirty walls. Rooms that need it should be scrubbed during the summer. A water-proof paint for the bathrooms might be found more economical than ordinary wall-paint. Perhaps if a more stringent check-up were made at the end of each year suites would be better cared for by their occupants. Every dormitory resident deserves this attention to his living quarters, particularly since it would entail little additional expense...
...Degreened" whiskey, waterproof blasting powders, weather-proof paints and dyes, and modern vitamin preparations went on display last night in the "Children of Recovery" exhibition in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory. Representative substances developed by research chemists in the year 1934-35 were exhibited. All interested persons are invited to inspect the collection, which will be displayed again tonight and tomorrow night from 7.30 until 10 o'clock...
...membership, however, is disappointing. The fact that ninety per cent of the undergraduates who joined the Center have used its facilities constantly is ample proof that the plant is giving satisfactory service and moving rapidly toward the consummation of the purpose to which it was established. The authorities have made every reasonable effort to further the progress of the enterprise, including the maintenance of a graduate committee, and, more recently, the attachment of the membership charge to the term bill. With such cooperation on every side, the commuting students who campaigned so pugnaciously and vociferously last spring have no further...