Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...
...song were restored to him by the State, which had confiscated them from the Jesuits' depository in Spain's Banco Espanol de Credito. Walking off last week with the $520,000 worth of property plus the $455,000 worth of bonds, Sculptor Quatrocchi provided living proof that the Socialist Spanish Revolution is now slipping rapidly into Fascist Catholic Reaction, with fiery, spellbinding War Minister Gil Robles slated for an increasingly dominant role...
...bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination has power over body, directs the basic cravings of living creatures. That proof earned Dr. Pavlov a Nobel Prize (1904), the gratitude of Christian Science, the devotion of physiologists, and the respect of Russian peasants and workers. Today he continues his researches in the fine big Institute for Experimental Medicine close to Leningrad, draws $10,000 a year salary, is privileged to ignore Soviet...
Said President Arias: "The Panama American is proof that absolute liberty of the Press exists in Panama...