Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tight Little Island. A 100-proof British comedy about a whisky famine on a Hebridean island and how the inhabitants relieved it (TIME...
...table-pounding, the battle of the files went on. The Democrats were not going to let McCarthy get a look at the files if they could help it; they demanded to hear his charges and his proof. Most of his accusations seemed to be a rehash of an old list of 108 names, dredged up in 1947 by the House Appropriations Committee. Since then, presumably, all had been rescreened by the State Deparment's security board (headed by Republican Conrad Snow) or the President's Loyalty Review Board (headed by Republican Seth Richardson...
...Lynch had been present when the Klansmen grabbed the Negroes; one of the victims testified that he had asked the sheriff for protection and the sheriff had walked away. The first trial last December ended with a hung jury; last week a second set of jurors failed to find proof of conspiracy by the Klan. But they convicted Sheriff Lynch and Deputy William Hartline of misusing their office in defiance of the 14th Amendment...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Du Pont sees a big future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...
These surveys seem accurate. They were, however, conducted independently and are being analyzed without the aid of consulting educators and psychologists. This is unfortunate, for without the assistance of any such "dignified" group, the survey results may shortly become merely interesting phenomena. Instead, the results can serve as proof that television can educate as well as entertain. They can act as immediate evidence in indicting television for ignoring this responsibility to educate, and for even misusing its power with consequent harmful effects...