Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday's elections, the hearts will be disfranchised. But if more than 30% of the ballots are handed in unmarked, the Germans will probably claim it as a bona fide proof that the Saar wants to be put back into Germany. Either way, the quarrel over the tiny Saar has all but broken down the bridges across the Rhine painfully built since the war to bind France and West Germany together...
...noncontroversial, a record of events. It recounts what happened . . . but often fails to ask why it happened [or] what the meaning is . . . This gets into the realm of opinion, and in this scientific age scholarship and instruction shun the speculative . . . The real issues are frequently sidestepped because no scientific proof is possible...
...work on the problem five years ago. It was all very well, they thought, to examine the main arteries of patients who had died of coronary attacks and note that there was a lot of cholesterol (a fatty alcohol) in the thickened walls. But, they argued, this was not proof that cholesterol was the cause of the thickening. They wanted to see what went on in the coronary arteries of normal people, as well as the victims of heart attacks. So the two pathologists arranged to get parts of arteries from the post-mortem examinations of people who had died...
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...Bruin inter fraternity Governing Board met Tuesday, but was unable to find any proof of who was responsible. Otherwise, Durgin termed the weekend "orderly...