Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proof of the Pudding...
...million General Aniline & Film Corp., seized as Nazi property during the war. A five-year lawsuit brought by Interhandel, a Swiss holding company that claims ownership of most of the stock now held by the U.S. Government, has just been thrown out of court for lack of proof of its basic proposition: that all connection with Germany was broken before the war. Interhandel will appeal, but Congress will be asked to pass a special bill letting the Government sell the property anyway...
Critics of the honor system point to the many infractions that go unobserved as proof that the honor system primarily honors only the principle of expediency. The Radcliffe library is an oft-cited example. There is no attendant at the door to check for stealing; last year 209 books were taken. Library authorities have threatened to abolish this aspect of the honor system if the record does not improve this year...
...important thing about the picture, however, is the proof it offers that CinemaScope can do the comic about as well as it can the epic. The problem of pictorial composition within the stretched-out frame is fairly well handled, chiefly by making the actors move more and the camera less. The cutting from one scene to another is a little heavyhanded, but the eye soon learns to allow for it, and the light skip from scene to scene, so necessary in comedy, does not seriously falter...
...display of white handkerchiefs notwithstanding, more motives than revenge made people happy over the outcome of Saturday's game. The Class of 1954 realized its ambition of seeing Yale beaten and could graduate content. Other Harvard supporters could take the win over Yale as final proof that local football has regained its equilibrium...