Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument flared up again. The president of the Seville Royal Academy of Belles Lettres announced that he had "historical proof" that bones newly discovered in a Carthusian monastery were those of Christopher Columbus. The announcement was received with cold disbelief by the custodians of Columbus' white marble mausoleum in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, which claims to have the remains of the discoverer...
...Truman signed it, the bill would, in effect, reverse the Supreme Court's cement decision. It would permit freight absorption, provided that prices 1) are independently arrived at and 2) do not eliminate competition. More important, the bill would take business off the defensive. Where the burden of proof now lies on business to show its innocence of any collusion, the new bill would require the Government to prove beyond doubt that an actual conspiracy to fix prices existed. Thus, even if rising prices should result from actions taken individually by companies, the Government would still have to show...
Reprinted a few inches to the right of this editorials is the text of a broadcast by William F. Buckley, Jr., chairman of last year's Yale Daily News. It is running in a column usually reserved for proof-reading mistakes, errors in grammar, and news stories missing a last paragraph. It belongs there...
What makes Buckley's broadcast a lot less funny than the proof-reading mistakes or misplaced slug's is that its sponsors claim they have received more than 18,000 requests for reprints. A director of Kalamazoo College has requested copies for the College's Trustees. The "Editorial Director" of the broadcast's sponsoring organization says "Buckley may be leading an educational crusade." If so, he is leading it straight downhill...
...Yorker his said, "The first duty of a newspaper is to stay alive." Similarly, the first duty of a yearbook is to come out on time. "314," whatever may be said of its proof-reading, has fulfilled this requirement. It deserves high praise...