Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovered by reputable chemists to be the exact equivalent of crimson. Delightful predictions have been made by the Boston Herald to the effect that the Harvard Crimson will now be titled the Daily Sodium Salt of the Daily Azo-8, the abbreviated terms being necessitated by the limitations of proof reading. The originality of these oracular murmuring is unimpeachable; their pertinence unexcelled. Without doubt the prophecies will stimulate profound and wide-spread reflection...
...Connor was heard first. He had to admit that he was indebted to Dame Rumor for his information. Said he: "I believe it in my own heart, though I have no way to prove it."He begged "a few days"to find proof...
...request for independence, said he, "had been refused without proof or justification." He exhorted the Egyptians to remain faithful to "complete independence for Egypt and the Sudan." "We will never admit," he concluded, "nor will those who come after us, that a single foreign soldier shall remain on Egyptian soil...
...closing Professor Chaffee said that, although it might be possible to cause rain to fall by the use of the electrified sand, no real proof of this had as yet been obtained. He said it might be possible to produce rain in regions where large moisture clouds were present at fairly low altitudes, but that it would be absolutely impossible to produce rain under any other condition
...once began a research to find out why families which had for generations sent their sons to Harvard, gradually ceased to be represented in the University. The impossibility of finding records of the maternal sides forced him to abandon the attempt, but he said that he had secured irrefutable proof that the Anglo Saxon stock in America is dying...