Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraction that had missed the point can be called the Anti-Social Relations Set. This group has adopted the C-plus saga as a proof that all Social Relations courses are ludicrously obvious in their content and ridiculously easy to pass. To this group one need only say, flatly, "Gentlemen, you are wrong;" to argue the value of courses in fields such as sociology and psychology would be more to patronize the Social Relations Department than to defend...
...Abbot, a trim, slim, energetic 76, and ready to take on all doubters, this was conclusive proof of his theories. Instead of locking his 1949 predictions in the safe, he has published them. (He says that the Fourth of July will be relatively cool in Washington; Christmas Day will be warmish.) But the Weather Bureau professionals think they see loopholes in Abbot's defenses. To prove their point, they have turned his theory upside down. Taking his 55 dates in 1948, they have found that besides the warmer days in between, there were also cooler intervening days...
...Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paramount), featuring Bing Crosby, is proof that Mark Twain, who wrote the original story, knew a thing or two that Hollywood has forgotten. Twain figured, correctly, that it would be fun to turn loose in the 6th Century a character with some of the scientific knickknacks and know-how of the igth Century. Twain also knew that to get the fun his audience must be willing to believe in the fantasy-' to accept it as a child accepts a fairy story. Unfortunately, the makers of this movie appear to believe...
Brier cited cases of minors using false birth certificates, draft cards, and even club membership cards to get drinks. Bars often accept these proofs even when they are obviously fake, he said, and sometimes ask no proof...
...shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...