Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suits are still pending, and Mrs. Ryan, now 64, is about to publish a book called A Stolen Invention. She explains that the suits are for $250,000,000, not $500,000,000; that she, not her husband, was the inventor. Mrs. Ryan also says she has invented puncture-proof tires and an air cushion to ease the landing of persons who fall from airplanes...
...decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption of the Rugby game is a sufficient proof that we gladly recognize, the superiority of other rules even at the cost of giving up our own. We have played under these rules with good success, and we do not hesitate to recommend their adoption to the Football Association...
...Proof that Veronese intended to paint Venus as a half naked lady rather than as a nude Renaissance goddess has been, supplied by workers at the Fogg Art Museum who have been using the X-ray to test the authenticity of masterpieces. The rays have uncovered the first version of the Italian artist's "Mars and Venus" where the figure of Venus was half draped...
...strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South it was the party of Property, Protestantism and Prohibition. In the North it was the party of the Common People, Catholicism and Repeal. Al Smith's defeat in 1928 was proof that these mixed assets were a liability. And even the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was due more to a fortuitous combination of these heterogeneous elements against Herbert Hoover and three years of Depression than to any real fusion of the various things that pass for Democracy...
...very formal touch football game held yesterday, the Sophomore Football Managers decisively and absolutely defeated their opponents, the Freshman Managers. The final score was 37-0, a proof of the greater sagacity and wit of the Sophomores...