Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet propaganda had stepped up the pace of its proof that a depression in the U.S. is just around the corner. With a little imagination, Russian newspaper readers could already see the nefarious U.S. capitalists selling apples on drafty street corners. Among Russia's bigwigs only 70-year-old Eugene Varga, once considered the Soviet Union's foremost economist, did not join the chorus that was sending the U.S. to the wringer...
...soberly attentive Lepe had attended a reunion of 16 members of the Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which the White House stands...
...more proof of Harvard's theoretical superiority is needed, there is the factor that the home crew has a physical advantage, both from knowing its own waters and being spared the ordeal of a long journey...
...close win over Exeter Saturday gave added proof to the fact that it is the middle distance runners and the milers who are the real core of the team. It is in the quarter, the half, and the mile that the Crimson has the depth which has resulted in clean sweeps in these events time after time...
...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...