Word: proof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church membership in the U.S., steadily growing since the latter half of the 19th Century, is still on the rise. This week the nondenominational Christian Herald, most authoritative voice on current U.S. Protestant church membership, released its figures for 1948* and gave churchmen statistical proof of the fact...
...Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those days. Jim Montgomery's trial, on a capital charge, lasted only one day. The prosecution offered no convincing medical proof of rape, but the jury convicted him anyway. He was sent to Joliet for life...
Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...
...been known for centuries that male stutterers far outnumber females (at the hospital the ratio is 5 to 1). But why? Some doctors think that it might be the difference between male and female sex chromosomes (which also influence vocal characteristics),* but they have never had any final proof...
...Bridges' union provided further proof of its party-lining last week in a new publication, Report from Europe, based on a rosy "rank & file" journey behind the Iron Curtain...