Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baxter friends. A mess sergeant from another company earnestly testified that Pfc. God's peelings were quite normal, considering that the accused had had only a knife to work with instead of a hand potato-peeler. Moreover, defense counsel (an officer picked for the job) was able to prove that Pfc. God's peelings (saved as evidence by the company commander) weighed less than those carved by his own mess sergeant...
...Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from 1926 into the '305. As Peis reported it in the German weekly, Der Stern, and in the London Sunday Pictorial, it was straight soap opera. But Maria had letters to prove...
...their battling over steel negotiations, both management and labor naturally pick the figures that best prove their case. Determined to hold fast against any wage hike, industry points out that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve...
Lyttleton and Bondi challenge physicists to devise experiments that can measure the charges of protons and electrons with new precision. If the charges prove to differ, the difference will explain both the expanding universe and cosmic rays...
...enough to use as land fill. Sterling estimates that operating cost of the Chicago plant will be $12 to $15 per ton of sludge v. $45 per ton for older methods. Sterling does not expect to make much of a profit on the Chicago plant, but hopes it will prove so successful that other cities will follow. Says Sterling's Chairman James Hill Jr.: "When people see how well these plants work, we will be turning them out like bags of cereal...