Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primitive Is sex? Most biologists have thought that bacteria, which are simple, one-celled organisms, multiply only by division. At Yale last week, Bacteriologist E. L. Tatum emerged from his lab waving proof that even bacteria sometimes act like male & female...
Among the jobs listed as references one student told of laying a fool-proof system of trip wires on the grounds of a Brattle Street home for an old lady who was tired of losing her front gate every Halloween to Cambridge youngsters...
...Proof that Western Europe does not want a revitalized Germany was cited by Bernard Bernstein, ex-Mediterranean Theater trouble-shooter. France, he observed, would rather see the iron ore deposits of Lorraine expanded with American loans than the coal areas of Rlieno-Westphalia...
Harry Truman had strong proof of Europe's need. A report of his Cabinet Food Committee spelled out the story in convincing detail: because of poor crops abroad, because of a sharp drop in U.S. corn production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection...
...latest proof was the case of Frank Filchock, ex-New York Giants football star now under indefinite suspension in the U.S. for failing to report a bribe offer (TIME, Dec. 30). The Hamilton Tigers, outbidding rival Canadian clubs, have sewed up Filchock for the current season, have played him in game after game in defiance of the C.R.U.'s refusal to grant him a player's certificate. The U.S. quarterback's flashy passing game has helped fill the parks. Filchock's reputed take...