Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several months the lists of bestselling books have offered multiple proof of man's incurable yearning for marvels. Near the top of the "nonfiction" section stood Immanuel Velikovsky's scientifically preposterous Worlds in Collision (astronomy based on hashed-up mythology). Close below was L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics (psychiatric home-treatment practiced as a sort of parlor game...
...many years astronomers have been pretty certain that the Aurora Borealis is caused by something, presumably hydrogen, that is shot out of sunspots. For one thing, bright auroras generally appear about 15 hours after a sunspot has moved to a point on the sun directly opposite the earth. But proof was lacking; even the brightest auroras were too faint and diffuse to be studied spectrographically by existing instruments. Last week the proof was in hand: a few smudged bands on two photographic plates...
...vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind the times...
...Korea today our military and political positions are intimately interwoven. For this is a guerrilla war, waged amongst and to some extent by the population of the country. For proof of this, come with me to South Korea and see with me some of the scenes that I have lately witnessed or heard of at firsthand...
...sufferings overcome," is Pierre Osbecque, a youth raised by a family in Flanders. Pierre's great aim in life is to win the English throne. He announces that he is really Richard, Duke of York, who was supposedly murdered by his evil uncle, Richard III. As proof of his claim, Pierre flashes a ruby ring given him by the Duchess of Burgundy-whom everybody else admits is an honest-to-gosh descendant of York...