Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...12th Lancers surrounded him in a body, led him to an armored car. "What, another one!" said Lyttelton, climbing aboard. "Close the hatch," said the officer in charge. Lyttelton saw the tin district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five days before...
...Reader's Digest is one of the greatest success stories in the history of journalism. It is also a unique proof that circulation alone can turn the trick, with no help from advertising revenue. In its 30 progressively successful years, the Digest has run not one line of paid advertising in its domestic edition (9,500,000 copies). This year the Digest should gross between $25 and $30 million, and net about...
...prohibiting groups from using the Yard with one that allows Yard gatherings or demonstrations "when such use will not interfere with classroom or office activities or the convenience of Yard residents." The Glee Club already uses the Yard for its spring concerts, and in other cases the burden of proof should be on the Dean's Office to show that a proposed gathering would be disruptive, rather than on the organization to show that it had an extra-special reason for wanting to use the Yard. Outdoor gatherings are good encouragement to expression at a time of undergraduate quiescence like...
When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
Gods, Graves & Scholars, by C. W. Ceram. The big men and big moments of modern archeology; proof that digging can be dramatic (TIME...