Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...
Although Dr. Rhine felt that these results added one more brick to his edifice of proof that extrasensory perception is a reality, he concluded that the medium's ability was by no means extraordinary. Her best scores in telepathy were high, but had been surpassed by one of Dr. Rhine's own students, a young man with no pretensions to special psychic equipment. Strengthened was Dr. Rhine's conviction that sight without seeing is a natural and commonplace faculty, exercised by "the reception of an unknown form of energy in an unknown manner" but nevertheless "an integral part of mental...
...There is still religion in the world," declared Lecturer Schweitzer. "There is much religion in the church; there are many pious people among us. Christianity can still point to works of love. . . . And yet we must hold to the fact that religion is not a force. The proof? The War! ... In the War religion lost its purity and lost its authority. It joined forces with the spirit of the world. The one victim of defeat was religion. And that religion was defeated is apparent in our time. For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command...
...brief but forceful message for world peace. With the narration h e l d down to a bare minimum, the film gives you the brutality and inconsistencies of the World War in behind-the-scenes shots, many of which came from the cinematographic archives of the nations participating. Proof of the ability of the picture to "speak for itself" is given by the many slashing, booming, gorey minutes during which the e x p e r t commentator, Pedro de Cordoba, remains silent...
...wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...