Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DAVE BECK has as much right as another American to invoke the Fifth Amendment. His action in doing so is no proof of guilt. The trouble with Beck's protestations of innocence is that he has already admitted a moral offense so vast that anything else is anticlimax; long before he took the stand in Washington, he had confessed that he borrowed more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story of how Frank Brewster used Teamster funds to make himself a real gent in the world of showy blondes, fast horses and high-proof bourbon...
...Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...
Friday's annual concert of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society was a most ambitious program, worthy of the best professional choruses. It showed once again,--though proof is no longer needed--that these two groups, under the intelligent and stimulating direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, are leaders in American collegiate singing...
...made the grade. But the school's standards are so high that even students with the less difficult translator-interpreter's certificate or the simple "language certificate" find jobs without trouble. As a matter of fact, to have completed the school's courses at all is proof enough that a man or woman is much more than an ordinary linguist. Today's interpreters must not only have the concentration and quickness to translate words and sentences instantly; they must also have background enough to be able to render shades of meaning and to place emphasis where...