Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call through. Then his assistant had to travel 60 miles along mountain roads to a farm where Broennimann was resting with injuries he suffered during his climb. The mountain climber was reluctant to give up his pictures (he had only the negatives), because he wanted them as proof of his feat...
Hagan: "The only proof of white paint is from people born after 1890 who talked to people born before...
...realize that poverty and inequality need not be their lot. Another reason lies in the burning sands of the Negeb desert, where in 1948 the Egyptian army was routed by the Israelis. The Egyptian troops were badly equipped, badly trained and badly led; but the defeat was taken as proof that Egypt's corrupt ruling class had emasculated the country. Egyptian officers, recalls Mohammed Naguib, "were filled with shame . . . We were bitter that our country should be kicked into the dust of the road." In 1950, the Palestine arms scandal broke, and the country learned that swindlers had piled...
...every Yaleman knows, Yale is more than a great university; it is also a school for success. Last week in Harper's Magazine. Novelist John Hersey (Yale '36) offered some lively proof: the 830 members of his own class, 15 years...
...long-wed "A.P." snapped back with a peppery article in the Daily Express: "For 38 years I have given practical proof of my respect for 'Christian marriage' . . . Most of us, I am sure, whether we recognize 'Our Lord's authority' or not, have the same 'ideal' of marriage as the editor ... I hate to use the word 'humbug' in any controversy; but let me say that the Voice of the Church has behind it some very loose and inconsistent thinking . . . If a man divorces his first wife after five years...