Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Ehrsam contributed proof of Major Byron's Shelleyana fakes in Robert Metcalf Smith's The Shelley Legend (TIME...
...popular) and is under no federal control. Some states, notably Texas, have tried to curb the peyote traffic, but Mexico has a plentiful supply. In Washington the Bureau of Indian Affairs is waiting for the results of two elaborate studies into the physical and social effects of peyote. Until proof to the contrary is received, the bureau is committed to the view that peyote is harmless. The men on the spot in the desert think they know better...
...closing I must compliment the Advocate business board for procuring a lush three page Anti-Vivisection advertisement (which must have done the coffers a lot of good through it rather disfigures the back pages of the magazine). Perhaps the editors will use the profits to hire a professional proof-reader next year...
Liquor & Work Drinkers have often comforted themselves with the thought that they get energy out of the alcohol they consume. Doctors, who like physiological proof, have not been so sure. After half a century of tests and arguments, there are still many who contend that the energy from alcohol is dissipated as heat and cannot be used for muscular work...
...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...