Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof of their personal failure. The natives live in age-old ignorance and squalor, the desert villages are outposts of pure savagery, and the rabble-rousing nationalists are free to work their political magic...
...achievement. Dean's List students who are only in the top fifty per cent of their class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could be changed to include only students in Group II. But this would vindicate a chance remark of Professor Owen, who commented in a History 142 lecture that the "gentleman...
...opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional committees on U.S. preparedness made by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Twining and Air Force Chief of Staff White were the Mirror's proof of U.S. warmongering: "The men with the medals are meddling too much...
...read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators will be put on the stand and will make statements without any proof. These statements become part of the record, but often they are nothing more than the investigator's belief. There is no effective rebuttal. The effect is that some witnesses who might testify if they got a fairer chance take the Fifth Amendment. I don't say they would testify. I just...
Scientific proof, according to Pettigrew, has demonstrated that girls tend to be more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works...