Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distant past an intercollegiate debate usually consisted of a series of well-drilled flights of oratory, the object of which was to dodge adroitly an ever shifting "burden of proof". The far-flung reputation of Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech undoubtedly impressed schoolboy orators with the desirability of mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less...
...Indeed the book appears to come as a bold challenge at a time when too few writers have the courage or inclination to confront this country with some of the distinct failures of American democracy and of civilization in general. Out of a vast supply of evidence and practical proof, Mr. Wiggam has selected the material to make out a surprising case against the present trends in human development. With unusual clarity he is able to bring in his wide knowledge of biology and psychology to aid in proving his accusations...
...author begins by showing that the advanced races instead of pushing on, are in reality going backward, and that civilization instead of building up the races of men, is steadily dragging them down. His proof of this phenomenon rests on a firm belief that "heredity and not environment is the chief maker of men." We, as a civilized people, preserve the weaker members of our race by medicine, hygiene, and sanitation. Then, in the generations that follow, the offspring of these weaker members is as large as that of the strong; and the weaker characteristics are all passed on, quickly...
Were Pythagoras to "listen in" on a modern radio concert he would undoubtedly hail it as irrefutable proof of his theory of the "music of the spheres". And in a Greek rapture over this satisfactory conclusion to his speculations he might neglect to discuss the other possible sources of the "heavenly harmony". To some degree the radio novice in his delight over the successful operation of his "set" has likewise forgotten to interest himself in the problems of the origin of those invisible waves which he has set his wires to snare...
...recent upturn in copper prices, accompanied by signs of increased consumption and improved conditions among European nations, was hastily seized upon by many as proof that all American copper companies were in for better times. Anaconda copper suddenly passed its dividend, followed shortly afterwards by Inspiration and Calumet and Hecla, and there then came a day of hysterical selling in the stock market, in which practically all the coppers declined. Subsequently, however, the better companies have been thought more favorably of, and their stocks have risen again, particularly after Kennecot declared its regular dividend...