Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof of this, Guy recalls the time he was away on a trip to California. "When I returned, all the drunks and book ies thought I had been in jail for three months." In a career that has ranged from chicken-farming to vaudeville, being a jailbird is about the only activity that Guy has missed...
...sunny morning in Reno, Barbara Jievute Paulekiute Sears ("Bo-bo") Rockefeller, excitedly chomping gum and convoyed by nine lawyers (only seven hers), two bankers and a pressagent, walked into a judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash, $3,500,000 in trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller...
...Universal as Memory. Osborn's main idea is a simple one. "There is," says he, "overwhelming proof that imagination is as universal as memory.'' The only trouble is that most people never get a chance to find out how creative they can be. The whole purpose of Osborn's course is not to turn out Einsteins, but to provide ordinary people with a number of hints and devices for giving their imaginations full play...
Lightning laced the sky at Pekin, Ill. (pop. 22,000) one night last week as a thunderstorm rolled over American Distilling Co.'s plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...
...sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which can result in various strategies of proof." With that in mind, the class proceeded to translate a series of statements into equally valid equations: e.g., "The White Sox win, or the Yankees win. The Yanks do not win. The White Sox win," which became...