Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal. This summer the movie won the International Film Critics Award at Venice and took First Prize at the New York Film Festival. With subtitles in a score of languages the film is presently touring the world. It is a sensitive story well told, and it is one more proof that fine cinema demands neither gargantuan budgets nor stunt men. May it live to laugh at Cleopatra...
...years." That being the case, the only ones in the dark on most data are "our industry and our citizens." The present criterion for releasing news of an important discovery is absolute certainty that such information would not harm the national interest. Argued Teller: "I think the burden of proof should be on the other side...
Number lines tell the novice much about fractions. When he takes three of four segments and divides their sum into thirds, he discovers that two of these thirds make one-half of the full unit. He thus has visible proof of the otherwise abstruse fact that 2/3 times 3/4 equals 1/2. By extending the number line leftward beyond zero, he visualizes the concept of negative numbers...
...square inch. When the drying plastic is pulled away, the nubs stick, and stretch into "blades" of grass. Then the squares are laid on an asphalt court, just as a homeowner might lay tile on a kitchen floor. The result is a durable and resilient surface, which is divot-proof, affords better footing and less leg fatigue and keeps both balls and players free from grass stains...
More than a century had elapsed after the death of John Paul Jones before the U.S. naval hero's grave was discovered in Paris. By then the appearance of the remains could be tested for verisimilitude only by comparison with a portrait bust of 1781. But the proof was easy. Not only did the dead admiral resemble the sculpture, but the skull shape and measurements were almost identical. And that was not surprising: the marble Jones was sculpted by the deftest hand that touched stone during the 18th century in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon...