Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geometry Problem. The two films represent a total investment of $9,000,000-the best possible proof of Hollywood's growing confidence in Nat Wood. And with a contract calling for as much as $250,000 per film, she can afford the white Cadillacs and 50-carat trinkets so essential to the happiness of a top-ranking movie queen...
...vegetable compound for "falling of the womb and other female weaknesses" contained "18% of alcohol," but they piously insisted that it was there "solely as a solvent and preservative." Parker's "True Tonic" for "in ebriates" gave its victims a hair of the dog with 41.6% alcohol (83 proof...
Productive Proof. Unlike U.S. businessmen, foreign industrialists generally do not see automation primarily as a means of beating labor costs. In Japan the incentives are to offset a lack of skills that makes quality control difficult or to compensate for the high cost of imported raw materials. European firms are often spurred on by labor shortages to find means of increasing production without additional manpower. Nonetheless, the net effect in both Europe and Asia is a labor saving that shows up in productivity gains that, in most cases, outstrip the U.S. rate of increase. While U.S. manufacturing productivity has risen...
...mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat: "Since it is unlikely that a functionary earns enough money to maintain two homes, it is urgent, in cases where proof is evident, that these officials be fired...
...hamlet of Marble, high up on the Crystal River in the mountains of central Colorado, has a population of eight that is swelled by summer residents to 58, plus tourists. To the summer citizens, their tiny, white-frame church seemed last week to be a set-piece proof of Paul's point about the letter and the spirit...