Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internationalism of the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...Adams; one from Chas. N. Morgan of St. Petersburg, Fla., and one from Winthrop C. Adams of Cohasset, Mass., together with a statement of yours, the first of which suggests that Mr. Adams is a Jew whose name was changed by Court decree, the second of which seeks proof of the fact that Mr. Adams is related to the other Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy, and the third, your own statement, which contains a statement that Mr. Adams has frequently claimed that relationship...
...taken to Marat, found him sitting in his bath, correcting proof on a plank laid across the tub. Seriously ill, Marat spent his days in a slipper tub, nude to the waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising...
From cubbyhole on Boylston Street to soap box on Boston Common is the latest excursion of Philip Francis Samuels, Baconian scholar extraordinary, author and vendor of "Man vs. Ape in the Play Earco Rammed"--or positive proof that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
...telephoned President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. Exulted the President to the Press: "This is another proof that since March 4, 1933, dollar diplomacy is not recognized by the American Government...