Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warn that the White House "had the goods on a great many" Congressmen who had taken fees for influencing RFC loans. This sounded like either the makings of a first-rate scandal or a brazen attempt to head off the congressional investigation, and Tobey hounded the White House for proof. Three weeks later, he said, the President called back to admit he had no such proof...
...Sound-Proof Curtain...
...large lecture rooms and four conference rooms are all equipped for laboratory demonstrations. Between experiments, in the large lecture halls a sound-proof curtain can be drawn around the demonstration table...
...given off by the lithium-helium reaction. Richter also said that he was using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped to the false conclusion that the Cockcroft process, or something like it, could be scaled up to full production size. But the atomic scientists...
...ever had a faithful Boswell, he was Jonathan Daniels, the even-voiced editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer (circ. 113,277). Daniels, briefly Truman's press secretary in 1945, was always welcomed at the White House as a friendly reporter. The President read, and edited in galley proof, large chunks of Daniels' The Man of Independence. And he raised no objection when Daniels used Truman quotes to polish off South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes as a "miserable failure" as Secretary of State...