Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years it has been apparent that the food at Harvard is among the best in the country. Now the City of Cambridge has come out with the conclusive proof to that effect. Not only is University food a valuable commodity in its original form, but it is also of great economic value after being served...
There is a third possibility. Harry Truman's open opposition might prod Kefauver into a fight. Perhaps New Hampshire proves that Truman is already treed on Kefauver's television antenna. If the Chicago delegates have proof positive that the Legend is a better vote-getter than the Liability, they might-just possibly-rebel and nominate the man in the coonskin...
...basis of a long and otherwise delightful corresponding friendship with Sears, Roebuck & Co., I have only one criticism to make of your cover. Sears never in its 60-year history learned to wrap packages as compactly and neatly as pictured there. As proof, there is a trail of 25 pounds of grass seed between Boston and our front door...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about...
This pair of Harvard students, engaging in a face slapping marathon seeking to wrest the honors from Moscow University in Russia, is a challenge to the common sense of taxpayers to seriously question mounting school costs in America. We here find proof that our school curricula and sillp practices, fostered and promoted under the guise of higher education, is a curious alloy of opposites--a little blending of common sense with a wild hysterical foolishness, promoted or sanctioned by the kaisers of "advanced" education...