Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cock & Bull." Before Fulton Lewis Jr. took him up, Jordan had tried to peddle his story elsewhere. Though Jordan offered a neatly written notebook as "documentation," it was turned down as farfetched and without proof in its most important points...
...countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs and polecats." Viscount Jowitt offered...
...practical results of recognition? While it might conceivably strengthen would do so even more, not only driving the Chinese closer to Russia, but also giving the Soviets good Propaganda material to use on the natives of southeast Asia. The Russians would be eager to claim that non-recognition is proof that the United States only recognizes governments of whose polities it approves...
...Religious Stigma." New Jersey's Attorney General Theodore D. Parsons moved for dismissal on the grounds that no proof had been offered that Gloria had suffered "any harm or damages from the reading of the verses"-especially since the law did not require that schoolchildren be present when the Bible is read. But Lawyer Zimel used the argument of Vashti McCollum in the Champaign case: he insisted that a pupil's absence during the reading inflicts upon him "a religious stigma and sets him apart from his fellows...
...Third Symphony were played Tuesday, and in the Trio of the third movement the Orchestra again achieved that lilt which comes only with practice and perfection. The Frescobaldi, an orchestral arrangement of an organ toccata, also showed the fruits of much careful rehearsal. But the Copland still stands as proof of what can be done if an orchestra such as ours really believes in itself...