Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 1839, the Orleans "Citizen King," Louis Philippe, anxious to curry favor with his nation's snootier aristocrats, who generally held a low opinion of him, offered to display the armorial bearings of anyone able to provide proof of an ancestor who had fought in the Crusades. Within a year Versailles was overflowing with applicants, all of whom bore ancient documents to attest their claims...
With the tube in place, Dr. Forssmann climbed two flights of stairs to the X-ray room, and persuaded the radiologist to take a picture as photographic proof that its tip had entered the right side of his heart. The technique, he reported in a learned paper in 1929, would be valuable for studying the blood pressure inside the heart, and for injecting radiopaque dyes to get X rays of the heart, including abnormalities. But his discovery was ignored in Germany. Older men, who should have been wiser, scoffed at Forssmann's catheterization of the heart as a circus...
...Lilly & Co., makers of carbutamide (originally known as BZ-55), warned doctors that among an estimated 1,000 patients who have received carbutamide in the last 18 months there have been eight deaths for which the drug may have been at least partly responsible. There was yet no proof that carbutamide was solely to blame but Lilly was putting doctors on guard. About 5% of patients had skin rashes, loss of appetite, nausea, drug fever, or lowering of the white blood-cell count. In nearly all such cases the symptoms went away when the drug was stopped...
There is considerable doubt that membership in NSA is worth $600, not because of positive proof, but because of no information on the subject. Even NSA's staunchest supporters admit that the Student Council has never availed itself of any of the organization's services. NSA apparently has an information office for common college problems, such as student parking. If such a service exists, the council has never bothered to find out what, if anything, NSA has to say on parking or any other subject...
...book which gives the impression of being organized by an excited jackdaw. It is called a novel, presumably to allow the author to use any colorful incident he chose without the hampering need for accuracy. The fact that Dumas survives Author Endore's treatment is decisive proof that even a bad biography cannot destroy a really great...