Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griswold: "Persons have been prosecuted under the Smith Act for membership in the Communist Party plus something else. If [the professor] supplies the proof of his own membership in the party, he does not know what other evidence may then be brought against him to show that he has committed a crime...
...Washer's Friend. Cleaning pots and pans will be simplified by a new silicone-coating process that makes cooking utensils adhesion-proof. To be marketed by Omaha's new Selinized Process Co., the coating makes it possible to clean most utensils with a dishcloth. Some deposits come clean when the pan is turned upside down and tapped; more stubborn food remnants can be burned off by putting the coated saucepan back on a hot stove. By early fall the first batch of 7,500 Selinized standard aluminum utensils will be marketed in the Nebraska area at prices about...
...Once an Army responsibility but now elevated to supraservice status is the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which serves the Veterans Administration, Public Health Service and Atomic Energy Commission as well. Behind its massive new walls (proof against radioactive contamination) are 656,000 bottled specimens of human tissue bearing the imprint of one or another of a thousand diseases, not to mention 6,332,508 slides containing tissue slices or body fluids for the diagnostic microscope. Among the institute's odd relics: a lock of Lincoln's hair and a sliver of bone from his skull...
...Camera [Remus; DC A] focuses chiefly on the one-dimensional but fantastic adventures in Berlin of a thoroughly engaging British female named Sally Bowles. No item for the children, it is probably the gamiest as well as the wackiest picture of the year-a sort of surrealist, 100-proof binge, skillfully carried through by Julie Harris...
...classic proof of Harmer's philosophy is the Penny Black, Britain's first postage stamp, which was accidentally postmarked four days ahead of its release date. The one stamp, sold by Harmer's in 1929 for $140, was resold in 1951 for a record of $672, an increase of 57,435% over its face value...