Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made from "attenuated" virus-particles incapable of producing paralysis but strong enough to stimulate immunizing antibodies. This virus is used live. It is given by mouth in a single dose. Dr. Sabin has already tried it on 130 prisoner-volunteers, needs thousands of subjects for fuller proof of its safety and efficacy...
...M.I.T. suspended him with full pay and without prejudice. Though the state later dropped its case, M.I.T. decided to carry on an investigation of its own. The gist of the faculty committee's findings: Struik has never made any secret of his Marxist views, but there is no proof that he has ever been a member of the Communist Party or that his beliefs have interfered with his teaching or research. Nevertheless, the committee deplored his use of the Fifth Amendment when testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in effect censured Mathematician Struik for "conduct unbecoming...
...Says Estes: "The family didn't die out in the 18th century, and Fm living proof of that fact. They came to England from Italy; they were chased out of Italy because they were too involved in politics...
...held a cold, empty pipe in his mouth for two minutes. Proponents of idioblapsis believe that it may be the direct precursor of heart attacks or even cancer. Happy with what they called a "revolutionary, all-important theory," allergists scattered from Florence to their home cities, vowing to seek proof of it in their patients' pulses...
Died. Archibald Montgomery Low, 68. whimsical, wide-ranging British physicist, rocket expert, inventor and author, who in 1914 demonstrated a primitive form of television, three years later designed the first guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London...