Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Undoubtedly, Scapa Flow was not submarine-proof and it would have been submarine-proof, in my opinion-and I am sure it is the opinion of the whole service -if Mr. Churchill had been in office a few months before the war. There would have been no question of any state of unpreparedness in any of our ports...
...companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on the floor, to shun the honest word "icebox" and call it "ice refrigerator...
Last week the revised Geneva had its world première in Toronto. However topical, the play is not so much straight political satire as one more Shavian exercise in deflating the human race, one more proof that the world's most famed vegetarian is intellectually a cannibal. Shaw's mischief-hungry mind first conceived of Geneva when he learned that The League of Nations possessed something called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. When he decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva...
...foregoing statements were not spoken from the gutter. Author Smith is a writer and amateur chemist; Helwig is a physician who has opened about 5,000 corpses: their cold-sober documentation runs to 47 pages of 100-proof bibliography. Simple laboratory curiosity prompted their research...
...this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden of proof rests upon those who say he was not--then no one has denied the right of a Communist to speak at Harvard. If Tom Girdler had been indicted for income tax evasion pending a lecture engagement here, he too would have been denied the right to speak...