Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talking directly to the seaway's opponents, "certain railroads and port interests," Truman warned that Canada would charge-tolls of U.S. ships, perhaps even after the cost of the seaway had been paid off. He argued that an inland (i.e., submarine-proof) route to bring iron ore from Labrador to U.S. steel mills was "of great importance to our national security." Said he: "No great nation has ever deliberately abandoned its interest in any of the vital waterways of the world...
...around the slopes and have apparently built tunnels through from one side to another, in order to shift troops quickly and furnish impregnable shelter against allied bombs and heavy artillery. Bunkers with alternate layers of pine logs and earth, from 3 to 15 feet thick, are proof against all but the biggest allied guns...
...CRIMSON editor, in response to this letter, began to take tutoring under Cramer along with hundreds of other Harvard students. His cancelled check was sufficient proof, and on January 15, 1948, the CRIMSON announced: "After taking an 8-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo in recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...
...retirement, my function now is to keep Gamesmanship from wandering from its basic principles, and may I therefore remind your Sport Editor that the suggestion that "the final score is the proof of the gambit" is a deviation from the Gamesmanship line...
Ceram. The big men and big moments of modern archeology; proof that digging can be dramatic (TIME...