Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions, 15 years' residence (instead of five years as in the "Ham & Eggs'' proposal...
Partly as comic relief, partly to prove that Leftist Spain's munitions agents had been hoodwinked into paying out good Spanish gold for outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting...
...Ward, a distinguished Catholic firm. Author Noyes made no attempt to whitewash the corruptions, ecclesiastical and otherwise, of Voltaire's time; he agreed with Voltaire's observation that "to receive the Host from certain hands would be like swallowing a spider." Author Noyes did aim, however, to prove by Voltaire's own statements that he was by no means the cynical atheist he is commonly considered; that he was, in fact, a Deist without quite enough insight to become a full Christian. Voltaire, thought its author, presented an "overwhelming" case for Christianity. The Holy Office, when...
...Joseph Banks Rhine published his telepathy theories, "ExtraSensory Perception" (ESP) became the brief rage of women's clubs all over the U. S. Commander Eugene Francis McDonald Jr., energetic president of Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference, saw a chance to prove his belief in a big way by putting ESP on the air. Zenith sponsored network radio experiments in the Rhine technique, put the tests in the scientific hands of Northwestern University's Psychologists Drs. Louis Deal Goodfellow and Robert Harvey Gault...
Since the report shows the shift of student enrollment from the older "standard" fields of the Humanities toward the Social Sciences and the absence of a proportional shift of funds from one Department to another, it may prove a salutary "eye-opener". The Council hopes that many new students in the College will express an interest in the College will express an interest in the reports which may influence the course of their education at Harvard; copies of Council reports may be consulted in Phillips Brooks House...