Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though no Mexican finished above eighth, the country was well pleased. The race furnished convincing proof to U.S. tourists that the border-to-border highway is ready for use: Winner McGriff's average driving speed down the full length of Mexico was 79 m.p.h...
Such temperature variations, Hess reasoned, ought to stir up the Martian atmosphere as they do the earth's. For proof that they actually do, he turned to observations of the faint white clouds that sometimes drift across the red surface of Mars. The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure. He thinks that the lot spots are probably "heat lows" like those that often form in summer in the U.S. southwest...
Despite the glamour of moviemaking, Hollywocdians have always thought that the fattest profits in the movie industry were made by the theater operators. Last week they had proof. The two Paramount companies, divorced last year in line with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to separate production from exhibition, issued their first quarterly reports...
Last week's conference closed without final proof either way, but with an official hope "that a way may be found to examine scientifically, religiously and historically those aspects of the holy linen which may lead to determination of its authenticity." Colored photographs, X-ray and chemical analyses seemed indicated, but much red tape needed unraveling before they would be forthcoming. The shroud, still the private property of ex-King Umberto II, has not been exhibited since the Holy Year...
...proof that this policy worked, Dr. Kalinowsky points to the retreat of the shattered Nazi armies from Stalingrad in the bitter winter of 1942-43: "Many soldiers were unable to continue due to physical exhaustion, but hysterical symptoms were extremely rare. They did not promise any gain, and failure to stay with the group could lead only to death from exposure or, at the best, to imprisonment by the Russians." Delayed reactions after the soldier was safe were more common but usually did not last long-again, because there was nothing to gain...