Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word exercised its powers repeatedly and emphatically; over the radio was the message proclaimed; voices were even heard from the skies. Yet the cry of the scoffer persisted, and though but an undertone it would not be suppressed. The bandage slipped, said some; others of more astuteness detected clear proof of Machiavellian schemes involving the use of drugged coffee. But at last the faintest murmur of discord is doomed to disappear, and not from any outward violence but through inward conviction. For, as is announced in another part of to-day's CRIMSON, the not unheralded blind-fold test...
...Proof for above statements may be had in all issues of TIME for 1928. Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton...
...story, then, is an imaginative one, and those who have thought of going on a long-term masquerade on a big scale will do well to study it. But to this reviewer, at any rate, it was just another proof of the dictum that direction of the imagination into desirable channels is the secret of a happy and virtuous life...
...proof that the worst students are the healthiest, statistics on provisional Sophomores and Freshmen are given, showing that 90 per cent of the provisional students rate B's or C's in posture as compared to the 75 per cent of those in good standing. Also, more of them smoke, but more wear glasses...
Rough-housing on a train--not even a special train but one shared by other passengers is no proof of superiority in brains or in courtesy. It yields no evidence that the young participants are any better than the most ordinary hoodlums. Boston Traveler