Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more days, and the little blue devils will begin to rampage. Whether or not students are ready for examinations, a large group of professors are. They are primed to make this year's tests a very special set. They will try to concoct something relatively new for Harvard, tutoring-proof examinations and a tutoring-proof system of grading. Of course, they won't succeed entirely--but the ingenuity of a dozen or so Harvard professors should not be under-rated. And for the incredulous student, it would be better to believe now than later...
This is wholly untrue as a reading of the Doctor's address will quickly prove. Dr. Kopetzky's high standing in the medical profession is convincing proof of his loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath...
...carefully refrained-while hobnobbing diligently in private with influential people from all over-from making a national speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare" by his racket-bustings, the Cardinal Newman Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years...
...finance is governed and conditioned by our defense spending," explained Sir John. It is this cruel necessity which transforms our budget and increases our borrowing, and makes it necessary to shoulder grievous burdens and face unprecedented totals, without the pressure of which taxpayers might rejoice over a lightening load." Proof of Sir John's words was found in the fact that nearly half ($3,150,000.000) of the great outlay was to go into Britain's rapidly expanding defenses...
Astronomers suspected a year ago that the newly discovered massive objects,--one in the constellation Sculptor and the other in Fornax,--belonged to a new grouping. But proof had to awalt the discovery within the systems of variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams would enable a measurement of distance...