Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good dry 14 to 1, with the trend strongly in favor of more gin and less vermouth. Riding this trend, the House of Schenley last week was busily promoting the driest martini so far. Called the "Naked Martini," it is simply a straight gin, cut to 80 proof to make it taste a little less fiery than the usual 86-to-94-proof variety...
JOHN ANDREW BARR, 51, handsome Hoosier, is the best proof in U.S. business that ugly ducklings do indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief claim to fame was that he showed a rare ability to survive the purges and resignations that cost Ward's five presidents and 30 vice presidents in 23 years. Barr managed to stay by avoiding open conflict with Avery, kept quiet about things that he knew he could...
...laboratory, designed by Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith, and Haines is sound-proofed and air-conditioned, with separate controls in each room. In addition to explosion-proof cold chambers, which can be kept as low as -22 degrees, there are rooms with temperature-humidity controls. These can be set anywhere from 130 degrees and 100 per cent humidity to 30 degrees and no humidity...
...carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired old pitchman bargaining with "Mr. Death," tales from the Twilight Zone are proof that a little talent and imagination can atone for a lot of television...
...proof of Author West's fictional skill and Christian spirit that his ending is psychologically convincing and unconventionally happy because it is holy. His implied moral: few men are chosen to be saints, but many are called to prevail over wickedness with good...