Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burden of Proof...
Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...
...articles, charged Judge Nichols, made false accusations against the county courts. As his own proof of one mistake, he produced a photo of a $25 bail bond put up by an out-of-state traffic violator, in Floyd's county seat of Rome, even though the Constitution had said there was "no record" of the case ever having been disposed...
Editor McGill was not convinced. The existence of a bond, he said, does not show any disposition of the case, and he refused to print the photo of the bond the judge offered as proof. Warned Judge Nichols: "I ... request that you publish a statement that your reporters saw the records in the case and that the records speak for themselves. Otherwise I have no alternative but to conclude that you are acting in contempt of court." Last week, as the editors still refused, Judge Nichols made good his threat. Editors McGill and Williams were released without bond while they...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric (TIME, April...