Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing for such dogmatising, yet it is unavoidable. While science was unremunerative and even hazardous, few but the truly scientific minds were attracted to its pursuit. Working patiently and slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made it possible for "scientific investigators" to earn...
...than I. Believe me! Believe me! And need I tell you that I have brought neither automobiles, which would have been a real aberration, your automobiles being of public notoriety, holding first place in the world's production, nor airplanes, yours, as well as your aviators, showing incessant proof of their exceptional value...
...position and composition, then, the university is qualified and bound to act as the medium of perpetuation of the union of knowledge and imagination. The legacy of the university, the proof of a duty fulfilled, is the men it contributes to every field of human action. As long as universities can translate into human terms their welding of fact and fancy they will justify themselves. Loss of the human equation means failure...
Further, the police claimed to have found proof that $30,000 was paid to Ronoto during the recent electoral campaign by the Third International, famed Soviet propaganda bureau. The "master mind" who from Moscow directed the alleged subversion was declared to be Sen Katayama, the expatriate "Father of Japanese Communism" and a graduate of Yale University...
...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...