Word: proved
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Paraphrase of Aristotle. Adler's new readers prove his point. Invited to submit their meatiest questions, they have bombarded him with 2,500. Adler sorts the mail into "C" (useless), "B" (perhaps) and "A" (usable), has already accumulated a three-year supply of A's. These get published in his weekly column, and win a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books (54 volumes, value $300), which Adler co-edited in the 1940s with Robert Hutchins. then the University of Chicago's chancellor...
...means of the Army's Explorer satellites that such a radiation belt actually existed and conformed to the predicted magnetic contours, the Christofilos suggestion looked even more reasonable. But no one knew whether man could produce enough electrons to affect the whole earth or whether they would prove, in the words of one scientist, "a teaspoonful in a sea of natural radiation...
...Since the debate was going to be humorous anyway, this disadvantage was actually a windfall," James D. Lorentz, Jr. '60, Chairman of the Debate Council, commented. "Now that we really have something to joke about, this should prove a truly absurd evening...
...limits of quick credit are bounded only by the businessman's imagination. Last month Amarillo's First National Bank wheeled out a car credit card to buck the big auto financing agencies. The holder presents the card in the auto showroom to prove that he has the bank's approval for a loan, like a cash buyer can drive out in a new car within minutes...
Drawing the Line. What the Justice Department hopes to prove in the I.L.G.W.U. case, and in a number of other indictments expected soon from grand juries sitting in Omaha, Chicago and other cities, is that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns...