Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SEGUNDO REFINERY OVER THE CAPTION LINE "DENSE SMOKE, POURING FROM STANDARD OIL REFINERY AT EL SEGUNDO . . ." WHICH SURELY IS AN INDICTMENT OF OUR OPERATIONS. [THE "DENSE SMOKE" IS IN REALITY ONLY HARMLESS WATER VAPOR, [PART OF] THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THIS OR ANY MODERN OIL REFINERY ... AS PROOF WE CAN SUPPLY AERIAL PHOTOS TAKEN ON DAYS OF LOW HUMIDITY WHEN THESE VAPORS ARE NOT VISIBLE...
...evidence points to the conclusion that we have successfully isolated the virus for the first time," Enders said. "But we have not yet completed the final proof of inoculating a susceptible monkey and actually producing the disease...
...conclusive proof that Enders and his staff at Childrens' Hospital in Boston have isolated--and for the first time grown in a laboratory--the elusive virus will be delayed until Enders returns from receiving his Nobel award in Stockholm in December. He, Dr. Thomas Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, were awarded the $36,066 prize for their work in developing the polio vaccine...
...school, she gave him a magic brain potion to sip before he began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have not yet cut the umbilical cord binding them to traditions that were old when Stanley presumed he had met Livingstone...
...queerness. When the police finally break into the house, the stench is pretty bad. Novels like this one, which draw on the pap of fact and melodrama, are reasonably sure of an audience. My Brother's Keeper has been tapped by the Book-of-the-Month Club, clear proof that the Collyer brothers did not die their strange deaths in vain...