Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposition hall were 300 brightly colored booths, housing nearly every design of plane or accessory on the market. A professor demonstrated a fool-proof self-landing, self-balancing plane, dubbed "the flying pickle...
...places will help prevent infection, as will the strict use of personal soaps and towels. Writes Surgeon General Gumming: "Probably the general tendency of the American public to spend a certain amount of time in hotels is largely responsible for the increase of this disease. There is no good proof that water in swimming pools is in any way responsible...
...certain Miss Louise Moore, 42, of Manhattan, furnished peculiar proof, last week, of the extreme spaciousness and luxury of the Augustus. Miss Moore occupied with a Miss Goebel one of the de luxe cabins. It had windows, not portholes. Miss Moore leaned out of her spacious window to enjoy the night breeze, leaned further, fell out and overboard...
Economy (after flaying the Republicans for their failure to reorganize the Governmental machinery as in 1921 they promised): "The administration spokesman answers only: 'We have given an economical administration,' and that has been repeated so often that some people begin to believe it without the slightest proof. I assert that there is no proof...
...surgeons took away in all 60 sq. in. of Norman Douglas' skull, preserved them at the Toronto General Hospital. They are proof for a professional paper that Dr. Gaby is writing. Never before, so far as the two surgeons can learn from the medical literature, has an adult lost so much skull and lived. Nor children. Sometimes a baby is born without a skull top, dead...