Word: proving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceased to propel the blood through the circulation Of course, it may be stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary clinical means, but these beats, probably more correctly termed contractions, prove to be too feeble to pump the blood through the body. The fact resolves itself, that there was not any appreciable amount of blood transfused to have any significance upon the outcome in question, or that the person was not dead, or that the correspondent is considering the readers of TIME...
Sirs: I beg leave to call your attention to a statement in the July 8 issue of TIME, page 13, column 2 near the bottom of the page: "Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization." I challenge anyone to produce a bit of documentary evidence to prove this statement-or any evidence that would be accepted by the courts of any civilized nation This statement savors of international slander; it is bad etiquette and miserable ethics. To say the least, it is totally unworthy of a magazine that professes the accuracy and other qualities of TIME. EARL...
...hard it may prove for the politicians to come to an agreement strikingly appeared last week at London, where the Young Plan was mercilessly flayed by David Lloyd George, balance-of-power man in British politics...
Pride of South African scientists is their possession of fair proof that man originated in Africa, not in Asia as Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn believes and as Manhattan's Roy Chapman Andrews has sought to prove by expeditions...
...wine-growing France, Professor Maurice Loeper of the Sorbonne last week completed a study purporting to prove that wine assists digestion, contains vitamins, radioactive properties. The finished Loeper document is an expansion of the famed Louis Pasteur proverb: "Wine is the most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages." Into many a language will the document be translated by Office International du Vin, an anti-prohibitionist organization which claims it is "a sincere friend of temperance and a bitter enemy of alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense...