Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...structure of "Right You Are" follows a simple formula. In the first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...
...Proof Positive...
...Proof of this theory was again found in insects. At the non-growing stage when the cytochrome system is absent (the pupal stage), the insect was found to be wholly resistant to diphtheria toxin. But at other stages, when cytochrome is present, the toxin caused an immediate cessation of growth and ultimately caused death...
EDUCATION : Johns Hopkins Science Review (Du Mont) because it is "convincing proof that learning need not be dull...
When Irving W. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. in 1911, he went to work for the Aluminum Co. of America with some misgivings. He feared that it had reached the peak of its expansion and that advancement might be limited. Last week Irving Wilson got final proof that his fear had been groundless: at 60, he became Alcoa's president. In his 40 years at Alcoa he earned the nickname "Chief," helped the company grow from a $21 million-a-year business into an empire whose 1950 sales were $476 million...