Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest' in every question brought before the Court. Suppose the U. S. Senate is not in session when such a question is put? The ensuing delay would be lengthy if not interminable. . . . There is also the question of whether the World Court should not be allowed to ask proof of the interest of the U. S. in a given question...
...Their proof was better ever than their promise. They dropped very few games to Cochet and Brugnon and when William Johnston and Edward Chandler had disposed of Lacoste and Borotra the foreign menace had evaporated. Tilden and young Alfred Chapin met Richards and Williams in the finals...
...This, of course, is all but impossible to detect, and when detected is generally incapable of proof. At times the bribe takes the form of a heavy contribution to party funds, which is distributed in devious ways...
...Crile, with the editorial aid of his laboratory coworker, Amy F. W. Rowland, has collated in his book, A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes, just issued by Macmillan's ($5.00). His thesis is far from dogmatic. "We concede that our thesis has not been finally proven. Final proof is lacking regarding practically every point. We concede that the bipolar theory would fail to explain living processes if any other form of energy than electric energy could be proved to be adapted to construct and operate an organism which is identical with or analagous to that of the human organism...
...very early age, 6 mos. even. The explanation, according to Psychologist E. Pickworth Farrow, is that the mind tends to slough off recent memories, going back to earlier and earlier ones, following expressions of the egotistic or self-preservative group of instincts. He offered the experiment as proof and correction of certain Freudian doctrines. Huxley. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College, London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling...