Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...
...hotel's lawyers. Despite whatever the Danish doctors did, the letter said, the Sahara's owners suspect that Jorgensen is "not now and never can be a woman." If a contract cancellation was not agreeable, "it will be necessary for us to demand medical proof . . . that you are a woman . . ." Snorted Jorgensen: "I have behind me some of the most important and brainy doctors...
...that did not satisfy Wyatt. On March 14, in another libel-proof speech on the state Senate floor, he accused three professors of "Communistic, subversive activity." They were Morris E. Garnsey, an economics professor; John C. Livingston, an economics instructor; and Dr. Harl Douglass, director of the College of Education. Wyatt based his charge against Gurnsey on the fact that a student in Garnsey's class had told him Garnsey had said in private conversation, "we ought to change our form of government and try another." Each of three denied the charge absolutely...
...universities of the country who form the American Association of Universities able to agree on a single policy statement. This statement denied the privilege of tenure to Communist Party members and said the use of the Fifth Amendment by a teacher means "he must bear a heavy burden of proof as to his fitness to continue teaching." The AAU's legal interpretation of the Fifth Amendment followed pretty much the view first clarified by two Harvard Law School professors in a letter to the CRIMSON on January 13. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. and Arthur E. Sutherland said...
...Proof that some couples' emotional problems are near the surface came from two Duke University researchers: in 150 couples who visited their clinic and were found to have nothing physically wrong, 80 wives became pregnant soon after Duke tests gave them reassurance...