Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare had cabled to Sir Sidney: "You should use your utmost influence to induce The Emperor to give careful and favorable consideration to these proposals and on no account lightly to reject them. On the contrary, I feel sure that he will give further proof of his statesmanship by realizing the negotiation which they afford and will avail himself of them...
...wars. So wrote all the rest. A Dr. Loeb, Wartime surgeon in the German army, hustled newshawks to where he had laid out the body of a woman who had had both legs and a breast torn off by bomb splinters. ''This." said he, "is the best proof of the benefits of civilization I ever...
Another case contains a special two-volume edition of "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets." It is "illustrated with portraits, views and autograph letters; water color drawings and proof engravings illustrating Pope's work and translation." Several letters from Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds are included in this rare book...
...undecipherable line was in a review by Lewis H. Titterton of With Napoleon in Russia, the newly-discovered memoirs of Napoleon's aide, General Armand de Caulaincourt* (TIME, Dec. 2). The line was at the end of a quotation from Napoleon which de Caulaincourt had offered as proof of the Emperor's unscrupulousness in winning allies...
...postscript to his novel Author Cobb announced that characters, units and places were fictitious. For proof "that such things happened" he referred readers to, among other sources, the issue of Crapouillot which Columnist Pegler discovered last week. Characteristically, the magazine names real characters, units, places...