Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the onlookers dispersed, Orozco discovered the source of his embarrassment. A few days earlier, the University's plasterer--eager to contribute his best toward the success of the mural--had installed what be described as "the best water-proof plaster in the world...
...with their views. Toward the end of 1952 the Bell Committee issued a policy statement that favored dropping the Bailey Plan regarding the Arboretum, but also in favor, if the Corporation should consider it in the Arboretum's interest, of moving the herbarium and library to the new fire-proof building in Cambridge. This the Overseers approved and sent on. Another scientific inquiry was launched the result was affirmative and the President and Fellows proceded to the vote of January...
Organized religion did not come to Phillips Brooks House looking for either endowments of office space. Hastie sought them out and offered it to them. That most of them were not enthusiastic over his plans is ample proof that Hastie is seeking to inject religion into PBH for its own sake, not because Brooks House needs religion or because religion needs...
...proof, the Mendès men pointed to evidence heavily marked with Radical Socialist fingerprints. It was no secret that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took...
Pretty Prize. Len Dawson is the first to admit that no man really wins ball games all by himself. (Proof of Purdue's powerful line is the fact that Len had to "eat the ball" only once the first 29 times he dropped back to pass.) But even as a high-school student in Alliance, Ohio, Len had a well-developed knack of winning all the athletic honors in sight. He was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams; as a senior quarterback, he completed 100 out of 200 passes for a school record of 1,615 yards...