Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were 31, government gaugers and storekeepers. Some 250 dry agents could come and go in the warehouse premises. Craftily, more than 500 barrels, 2,000 cases were tapped, their fuming contents siphoned out. Back inside was poured a concoction of colored water and alcohol which would show the proper proof to deceive gaugers but which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike, her flight would lack publicity. Thus prevented from an ultimate proof of his heroism, Caspar descends to the street level, takes a ride on a ferryboat with his gypsy sweetheart, Paras Veka...
...final proof of his new sovereignty the Pope left the Vatican building, drove in his Fiat down the street that skirts the Vatican Museum to the Vatican Gardens, but did not cross his state's boundary...
...announcement that Professor Charles W. Kennedy of Princeton will be the referee of the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet next month comes as another proof of the amicable relations of official Princeton and Harvard. As chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control Professor Kennedy has shown time and again since the break between the two institutions that his feelings toward Harvard are most cordial. There has been no lack of good will between him and Mr. Bingham...