Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard yesterday, editors of the CRIMSON sought, without success to discover whether any group of undergraduates in the University could be connected with the theft. It was pointed out to them several times in the course of their investigation, that a Massachusetts 22-cense could hardly be considered proof that Harvard undergraduates were responsible for the removal of the fence, inasmuch as there are several hundred thousand automobiles bearing Massachusetts licenses...
...oversight of Who's Who (your social register) is another proof of its unimportance. He would certainly merit mention as much as the cinemactors and politicians that fill its pages...
Interstate branch banking is not yet a fact. Many a U. S. citizen however believes that it soon will be. Of these none believes more devoutly than Mr. Amadeo Peter Giannini, president of Transamerica Corp. Ample proof of his belief came last week when he announced his intention of increasing the number of Transamerica stockholders from 135,000 to 500,000. One million shares were authorized. When or if interstate branch banking is allowed by Federal law Mr. Giannini will have paved the way for branch banks in many states by having stockholders in many states...
...David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides him. A drop of blood reveals his presence...
...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...