Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballot, before any such combustion could take place. To that end they tried to parlay a firm core of Dewey delegates into an illusion of Dewey's inevitability, thus roll up an overwhelming slate of backers well ahead of time. The kind of delegates they wanted were stampede-proof, blitz-proof, down-the-line Dewey...
Green for Danger (Rank; Eagle-Lion) is just another proof that the British, too, can make mediocre pictures. It is an affable, rattletrap murder mystery about a couple of doctors (Trevor Howard and Leo Genn), a few nurses (Sally Gray, Rosamond John, etc.) and an anesthetizing apparatus which, to everybody's dismay, induces the big sleep...
...high altitudes), the airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks. Scientific tests have shown that the modern plane cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
...into an alliance with a worthless schoolteacher who is already married. Out of this comes an illegitimate child, who grows up and stages her own unhappy revolt against Spinster Rose. Her fate is her mother's: she is left with a child by a country dolt. This is proof, says one character, that "it is often more dangerous to break a convention than...
...concern was not shared by another Government agency, WAA. For ten months Tucker has had a provisional lease on the Dodge plant, subject only to his ability to show WAA $15 million in cash on July 1, as proof that he was in a position to make cars. Tucker was unable to meet the deadline. WAA last week postponed the deadline to Nov. 1, the third such extension...