Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compulsory public schools, John Smith, if unable to sign his name to an important document, made a cross, and this was labeled "his mark." He could not be identified by it, but it served the official purpose. Signatures have lately become more common, but even these are not proof against fraud. A recent proposal has been made to require finger-print identifications on all certificates of birth, marriage, and death; thus making forgery or impersonation impossible, and separating the sheep from the goats...
...only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics claim that she is merely the model on which the queen tried her new evening gowns...
...professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...
...only when I encountered the result of an error in proof," Lewis Carroll is quoted as saying, "that I realized to the full the possibilities of the language." A similar "error in proof" has brought fourth the world, churkle. Type graphically, its presence is explained easily enough, the linotyper had slipped, the second letter of the third row had been struck instead of the third key on the top. But the possibilities are endless...
...persistent toil by awarding to any farmer-proprietor who can prove that his forbears have cultivated the same plot of land for over a hundred years the order of "la Merite Agricole". Somewhat to the consternation of the Ministry the number of applicants who have come forward with proofs is relatively overwhelming. Some families claim that they have won the award several times over. One peasant has presented proof that his ancestors have remained possessors and in constant occupation of the same piece of land since 1023; which would give him a lineage going back to the time...