Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the survey, according to the official, will be to give the public statistical, will be to give the public statistical proof that expansion here is completely unfeasible." He expected the survey's report to say that existing facilities would prevent Princeton from expanding while still giving the same sort of education it does...
...corruption of the English language by the advertising agencies [TIME, Jan. 24]. I feel, though, that Father Davis has overlooked the deeper meaning of the old fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin and the old rule that "the baby has to have a name." The excesses of the advertisers are merely proof that the Biblical injunction to Adam that he give names to the things of the earth is getting harder every...
Largely to please his father, Jung chose medicine. He soon became fascinated with psychiatry. In 1900, newly graduated Dr. Jung went to Zurich as an assistant in the famed old university mental clinic. After he discovered the writings of Freud, Jung devised word-association tests which were hailed as proof of Freud's basic theory of repression. Jung and his chief, Dr. Eugen Bleuler, gave Freudian theories a longed-for accolade of respectability through the prestigious Zurich clinic. In 1907 Jung went to Vienna to spend two weeks with the master. "The first day we talked for 13 hours...
...proof of that fact, private U.S. investment in Latin America already totals $7 billion. But to give a modest 2% annual boost to its low standard of living, Latin America needs $7.25 billion a year in new investment, v. the $5.9 billion now being generated from all sources. Even if Latin American capital could be tapped more effectively, another $1 billion annually will be needed from abroad...
...that such a collection demanded a separate building, and in 1940 President Conant dug the first spadeful of earth from a hole that was to become the new rare-book library. When it was opened three months after the start of World War II, Houghton was described as "Fire-proof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The age of nuclear weapons may have increased Houghton's vulnerability, but it has not diminished the value of a collection that has withstood three hundred years in the Yard...