Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These and several other fires induced the Corporation to take precautions. After 1880 it asked for fire-proof or slow-burning materials in all new construction. Fire escapes were built, cellars cleaned, hydrants added, and fire walls extended. A question of how much fire insurance is feasible for a university was frequently discussed by the Corporation. At the turn of the century the best solution was to place valuable collections in fireproof buildings and to increase night watchman details...
Scientific Proof Cited...
...rapid development of nuclear power and the growth of radioactive stockpiles must be controlled by fool-proof regulation, two Harvard professors told the state legislative committee on public health yesterday. Harold A. Thomas, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering declared it the duty of the State Health Department to evaluate the current danger of radioactivity, and to regulate atomic substances if necessary...
...Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. Superbly styled proof that London's Old Bailey often makes for better drama than...
...WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could not jeopardize our sources," presumably paid African informers. Faced with the outcry, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd appointed...