Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nailed. A few days later, Deputy Jean Legendre, member of the faction that broke with De Gaulle, implied, without offering proof, that Mendès and his top advisers had been responsible for leaking secret government information to the Communists before he became Premier. Legendre recalled that in August last year ex-President Auriol had summoned the Defense Committee, saying: "There is a traitor among us." Pointing at Mendès' Interior Minister, Francois Mitterrand, Legendre shouted: "Three weeks later you resigned from the Cabinet." Pale with anger, Mendès leapt to his feet, crying: "What...
...time will be successful. In our case, we could hardly believe the results for a while after we had first innoculated the tissue cultures (with polio viruses to get the growing started). And we could not really believes the results until we had conducted extensive tests to gather proof...
...Final proof of measles virus growth must await Enders" return from Sweden, however. For the 57-year-old research scientist has not yet innoculated monkeys with the test-tube grown measles virus...
Last week in the Register's modern, $2,500,000 Denver headquarters, Editor Smith happily pointed to physical proof of the success of his journalistic formula. Into operation went a new, $650,000 press that can print 52,500 papers of 32 pages each in an hour...
...World War II and ferried supplies from San Francisco to Tokyo during the Korean War. Along the line, he acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that moves in what he calls the "ocean of the sky." Though his book sometimes reads like an airborne Information Please, it offers engaging proof that scientific fact can be at least as strange as science fiction. Is there any meaning to the expression "light as air"? Nonsense, says Murchie, the air surrounding the earth really weighs more than 5 quadrillion tons. Anyone lost at sea? Butterflies offer directions-in-reverse to the nearest coast...