Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also Friday night, five a capella close harmony groups will perform as part of the Proof of the Pudding Jamboree: Yale's Proof of the Puddings, Spiswinks, and Red Hot and Blues, and Harvard's Din and Tonics, and newly-formed co-ed OpporTunes. The concert will be at 8 p.m. in Branford College dining hall...
...lucky and you don't get hurt," the 5-9 senior said, "you get back out of it what you put into it." Linsley is living proof of her words' validity...
...control. The passenger's family retained Merritt to sue the manufacturer, claiming that the accident occurred when one side of a poorly designed handle bar gave way and the driver lost his balance. Merritt based his argument on the cycle's skid marks. For videotaped proof, Gibbs roared around a paved cycle track, went into a long, heart-stopping skid and crashed. Harley-Davidson settled out of court...
...much of its complicated biblical and patristic symbolism insists that the Jews were the killers of Christ and thus an accursed people, so detestable that the usual inscription over the crucified Savior's head, "King of the Jews," appears as "King of the Confessors." If ever one needed proof that a work of art can be both aesthetically ravishing and morally vile, the cross supplies...
...ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...