Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proof. Sheeler vanished into the recesses of City Hall. A week later, he signed a confession: Gunman Howard had shot the policeman and he, Sheeler, had been a witness and accessory to the crime. He was sent to the penitentiary for life by the late Philadelphia Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who neatly disposed of the feebleminded Bilger by getting him transferred to a mental institution from which he conveniently escaped...
...experiment was a further bit of proof that RCA's "dot sequential" color system can be reproduced on ordinary sets in better-than-usual black & white. It was also further evidence that RCA had no intentions of giving up the color fight...
...Western world are agreed on "their conceptions of God and of His relation to Truth . . . The success of Great Britain in developing 'agreed syllabi' for the teaching of religion in all publicly supported schools, with the full concurrence and support of the three major faiths, supplies the proof. It should challenge American educators to fresh efforts to restore religion to its appropriate place...
...answer to proposals to outlaw Communism made by former Overseer Charles E. Wysanski, Jr. '27 in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Howe said that more proof was needed before the means of the party could be called unconstitutional...
Leading the advance were the oil stocks, whose rosy first-quarter profits gave proof that the oil industry has felt none of the slackening demand that has piled up inventories in many another industry. Another bullish factor: British oil trouble in Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS). Up to new highs scooted Continental Oil, Cities Service and Amerada Petroleum; in three days Jersey Standard jumped seven points to 115¾, a new alltime peak...