Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was killed by a bolt of lightning that passed through his head. Safely insulated scientists have tried to duplicate Franklin's trick, hopeful that they can learn to cause lightning at will. But by last week even the U.S. Department of Defense was convinced that it is no small stunt to lure lightning out of a passing cloud...
After wading through 19,000 pages of testimony and exhibits. Piper found that "there are isolated items of evidence which, standing alone and without explanation, might cause suspicion or speculation of conspiracy. However, suspicion and speculation cannot replace proof." The prices to retailers of the antibiotics in question, said Piper, tended to become identical because "it was not possible to sell the identical product at a higher price, and it was self-defeating to offer the product at a lower price since this was quickly met by competitors...
...testing. Among them: to reduce the weight of Russia's large and clumsy atomic warheads, thus getting more punch for a small load; to improve the range and effectiveness of Soviet battlefield atomic weapons; to test entire weapons systems by mating new warheads to missiles; and to conduct "proof" tests of weapons already in the Soviet stockpile. The current test series is almost certainly providing the Russians with valuable data for development of small-and medium-yield weapons, an area where they have been weak. At least one underwater blast, totaling 10 kilotons, was probably the developmental test...
Several of the others went to his home and brought his proof of identification to the police station, where they were also placed under arrest. Miss Shiling, one white and five Negro boys spent several hours in jail before they were released on bail...
...leading the U.S. into the War of 1812. In the five previous volumes, Brant argued energetically and effectively that Madison was the forgotten Founding Father, a man dehumanized by historians because of his "intellectual powers, his Addisonian style of political writing and his concentration on public affairs." As proof that he had a more human side, Brant even dug up some mildly salacious poems that Madison had written at Princeton. In his present volume, Brant claims that Madison was also a strong President-and trips over the facts of history...