Word: proof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years up to the early 70's for more attention was paid to the text-in reworking things, editing and even proof reading-and the emphasis was on word play and puns," he adds, "In other words the work moved from verbal to visual...
...viewpoint springs not from any social vision based upon educational values from a disgust with parental complaints assignments of those students now randomly housed. If we could only spread out the pain. So to speak, no one could argue that he or she was unfairly treated Moreover no definitive proof exists showing that the present system causes any harm. Last year Associate Registrar Lay Halfond Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating the deleterious effects of the present system. Master Bossert and others who know immediately denounced the report which contained...
...proposal for a random lottery is the notion that, somehow, the Houses should be microcosms, mini-Colleges in themselves, each reflecting Harvard's overall diversity. To support then cause, the proponents of randomization marshall a variety of statistics on the concentration of certain groups in different Houses as proof that the goal of diversity is far from realized. The Council's report on the lottery cites figures stating, for instance, that one House consists of 45.7 percent varsity athletes while another has only 4.7 percent; minorities make up 17 percent of one House but have only a 3 percent representation...
...concluded that the TIME paragraph was false because the magazine had not offered evidence to back up its claim. "I felt he (Sharon) knew there would be a massacre," she told the Wall Street Journal. "I wanted to believe what TIME said. But there just wasn't any proof." (Under the law, it was up to Sharon to prove the story was false, not up to TIME to prove it was true...
...Cruising Speed (1971), William F. Buckley Jr. analyzed himself: "I am, for all my passions, implacably, I think almost unfailingly fair; objective, just." Some readers thought that autobiographical judgment was self-parody, but in fact it is largely true. One proof lies in Buckley's latest spy novel, See You Later Alligator, the sixth adventure of Blackford Oakes, secret agent...