Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book "almost lascivious," she retorted: "Mv characters and the tales of them must have been true to their period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
...city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...acceptance of the resignation will seem to many to be a rash step. The CRIMSON sees in it not a rash step, but a brave one. And it sees in it further that the step is proof positive of the success of the reorganized athletic bureau...
There are few who will uphold indecency per se, whether in humor or pretended art. But if it be hardly a foregone conclusion that this is the major, inspiration of literary youth, how much further from proof is it that the method of curing the possible evil is suppression. And a manufactured discussion, proceeding on a careless premise and conducted by assertion, does little but call attention to the subject, and that not fairly...
Cleverest of sales arguments is a convincing proof of some point that needs no proof at all. The fuddled buyer, agreeing with the salesman before the latter has uttered a word, follows the ensuing exposition with delight, and his support of an opinion is quickly turned to enthusiasm for a commodity. No modern corporation has used this sales method with more humorous ingenuity than Colgate & Co., soap makers. Up and down the land, in all the better magazines, Colgate & Co. has suggested that shaving is sensible and whiskers are silly. Last week, for its support of this curious view, Colgate...