Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better proof of the fact that this "editorial" is entirely out of step with the opinion of the average Harvard boy can be had than by listening to their comments on the Crimson article: they simply dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books, and is trying to show how terribly "intellectual" he has become through the reading...
...boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them weekly notifications instead. . . . There should be more convincing proof that our neighbors are doing all they can to help themselves...
...many lives and deaths into the hour-and-a-quarter of a feature picture. A sermon clipping the beginning and the end of the action makes clear that the death of the characters on the breaking bridge, coming at a moment of frustration for each of them, is proof of divine mercy. Best shots: Lily Damita dictating a letter to a bull fighter; Raquel Torres saying goodbye to Estaban...
...author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King's messengers to the publishers to suppress...
Although a full sized house has not yet been constructed, the inventor claims that it is flood-proof, earth-quake-proof, wind-proof, tornado-proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, and economical and that an airplane could run into it without damaging it. In addition, the partitions and struts are made of hollow duralumin which is pumped full of air to increase the tensile strength of the structure and to enable the children of the house to fall down without being hurt by the springy flooring...