Word: proof
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Membership in either the Harvard or Yale Club depends upon sponsorships by two members of the club and proof that the applicant has been in attendance at the respective university for at least one academic year. There is no initiation fee for either club, and dues are sealed to the number of years that one has been out of colleges...
Since authorities on Persian are scarce, how are we to know what liberties Professor "Arberry has taken with the Rubdiydt quatrains? . . . The fact that FitzGerald took them out of mothballs is proof that they were not best-seller material as Omar wrote them. In all probability Omar's wisdom would never have sold without a little romantic icing...
Waugh is a man of great talent: his mastery of the purely technical aspects of writing is alone sufficient proof of this. But, with one exception, his books have been mere exuberant spoofery...
...married, since Spanish law demands that if either partner has had a Catholic baptism, the couple must be married by a Roman Catholic priest. Even "an affidavit from a Protestant pastor that the parties are members of his church," writes Garrison, "is not regarded as 'documentary proof of non-Catholicity.' They still might have had Catholic baptism...
...Proof of this best came in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 asked his classmates to a reception at the White House. Members of the class who had been "lost" turned up out of nowhere to claim their invitation...