Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nixon: Well, of course, you are leaving open the possibility that you might have seen him in the event that that should come out in the proof before the committee...
Spring Water. It began when the House Un-American Activities Committee sat down with Chambers in closed session to hear the proof of his friendship with Hiss. Chambers' new testimony showed an amazing knowledge of Alger Hiss's private life. With meticulous precision, Chambers described the interior of three houses and one apartment occupied by Hiss. He remembered a car Hiss had once owned-an old jalopy with a hand-operated windshield wiper. He recalled that Mrs. Hiss,* like himself, was a Quaker. Once, said Chambers, Hiss had told him a boyhood story of using a child...
...doctrinal reunion. Anglicans were still Anglicans (see below) and the other member churches had also yielded no iota of dogma. But the assembly was living proof that Christians could work and plan together. It showed the churches' dawning conviction that without such unity they cannot hope to challenge the secularism of modern society...
...screen is young American womanhood at its best. To the eager young man, the ambitious stenographer, the Hollywood-hungry mother resolutely dragging her little daughter off to dancing school, Betty represents an attainable goal, a daydream that might come true. Grable's own life is a proof of the dream...
Cyrus Eaton was not cowering in his corner. The charges, he insisted, "can only be characterized as false and malicious. They provide the final proof that the commission has completely become the tool of our Wall Street rivals, already facing anti-trust proceedings, whose business we have steadily been taking away by our honest, but unwelcome, free competition...