Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of TIME, Feb. 11, you refer to the return to England of Col. T. E. Lawrence, and you refer to that gentleman himself as "Great Britain's most celebrated spy." I should like to know what excuse you have for calling him "spy," or what proof have you that...
...Prospective Subscriber Elkins state what she would consider proof of Colonel Lawrence's spyhood. Presumably she does not expect TIME to wring from the British Government the admission that the Empire employs a spy or spies. The Government of Afghanistan has made official, diplo matic protest against Colonel Lawrence's spying. The exploits which Lawrence describes in his best-seller Revolt in the Desert brand him as a spy ten times over, if one accepts the definition of a spy set forth in Article XXIX of the Hague Convention...
...goal. It is such achievements as this, in the face of dubious odds, that bring home forcibly the fact that the University sport teams are guided by men who know their business. The second trial of hockey strength between the teams will be watched more eagerly because of the proof of the first...
...Publix girls are, as usual, the best thing about the stage show. Their steps may pass through recognizable cycles as the weeks go by, but they are graceful and fair, and their costumes, like the stage effects, are proof of an architectonic imagination somewhere. But this week they sing. It's a talkie...
...place where Washington passed most of his boyhood has also been the subject of much controversy; recently this too has been settled, definite proof having been obtained that it was at the old Strother's Farm opposite Fredericksburg. At present little remains of this historic farmhouse, with the possible exception of a shed popularly called "The Surveyor's Office," which might very well have been a chicken-coop...