Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buxom Mistress Magda Lupescu lent her bullet-proof U. S. sedan to King Carol last week and His Majesty sent it down to Sinaia Station to fetch the Regent of Yugoslavia, esthetic Prince Paul, who arrived by special train from Belgrade. Up for discussion were Archduke Otto's chances of restoration as Austrian Emperor (TIME, July...
Finally last week the Dictator slipped secretly out of Rome, so that he would not be followed by the more prominent correspondents whose dispatches would be considered proof that he had said what he was going to say. This was nothing less than a verbal declaration of war on Ethiopia, delivered from the top of a cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint...
...Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico and served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when he offered, in the first volume of his reminiscences, a book that is often as exciting as an old-fashioned Western thriller, sometimes as quaint as the society column in a frontier newspaper, but in general an amusing, informative, absorbing piece of work...
...Latimer, Chicago radio news commentator. Brought up under the name of Jenkins by his mother and her second husband, Ira Latimer had long suspected that Thomas Latimer was his father, knew it when he read that Minneapolis' Mayor-elect was born in Hilliard. Thomas Latimer demanded proof, got it. Chief guests at his inauguration last week were his son, daughter-in-law, two-year-old grandson...
This was a germ-proof pump. By suitable ingress and outlet, Dr. Lindbergh was able to force oxygen or other gases into the continuously circulating fluid and draw it off again. Thus he had a mechanical duplicate of the lungs, heart and blood vessels. Nothing remained but to modify this apparatus so that Dr. Carrel could attach a heart, kidney or ovary...