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Word: proofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward S. Goldberg whose Military Sales Company sold machine guns & bullet-proof vests to "Boo Boo" and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blinks of Philadelphia | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...other countries throughout the world, Hoover's election will be accepted as proof that Prohibition is to continue as the permanent policy of America in dealing with the liquor traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Religion-"A Roman Catholic cannot be President of the United States." Proof of this statement is impossible, but many was the Republican who said: "If Smith had been a Protestant, he would have won." Democrats insisted to the end that the religious issue did not originate in their own party during the McAdoo-Smith fight for nomination in 1924, or, if it did originate then, that it was fanned to flame again by auxiliary agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...somewhat more difficult, but the senior class after a year of intimate study of this problem may embody their findings in some appropriate class gift. A suggestion in this matter, pending the decision of the class, is a thick walled glass case for the belfry: though absolutely sound-proof this would enable such legend-loving officials of the University as are known to exist to satisfy themselves that the bell still tolls the hall of dawning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BELL OF THE CAMPUS | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...view of these facts, the importance of Norman Thomas' visit to Harvard is more than an example of "opposition which ultimately aids knowledge", more than proof of the "existence of a party devoted mainly to the theoretical side of government", more than proof that Harvard is "unrestricted by the prejudice....which fears unrest and smothers disagreement." E.C. Berkeley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Significance | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

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