Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...
Abject servility to examinations may be pardoned in a student, for, whenever it exists, it is proof positive that the student does not know what he is in college for. And how should he? Various motives, all more or less connected with tangible benefits conferred by a college degree, prompted his coming to Harvard. But once he is within the gates, the tangible vanishes. He deals with the subtle and elusive powers of mind and spirit, and in his uncertainty the definite requirements for examinations at least give him something solid to grasp. It is not strange, therefore, that...
Through the booths the public wandered, goggling and prying, shyly stroking, timidly querying about improved sugar filters, acid-proof sewer ware, glass-enameled steel goods ("No, madam," said the guardian of a huge sea-blue bowl of this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly...
...work than is now possible. To prevent abuse of these privileges by the unworthy, permission to work for distinction should be made contingent upon the tutor's recommendation at the end of a student's Sophomore year, and in rare cases at the end of his Junior year, upon proof of merit...
Newspapers entertain a medieval fervor for crusades. Happy the editor who can turn sensational "copy" into proof of his devotion to the welfare of the commonalty. Last week the New York Daily Mirror found such an opportunity in the doings of Harry K. Thaw, famed murderer...