Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bird is flapping his wings in increasing futility. Yet most liberal thinkers would hate to see the Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed out, to make the social reform program fool-proof the Constitution would have to be amended to give Congress power to regulate all business industry, trade, and commerce. But with the states as reluctant now as they were in 1789 to surrender any power to the federal government, there is hardly any hope that such an amendment...
...desk, which he rarely quits before 7 p. m., Publisher Sulzberger is quietly brisk, occasionally pausing in his talk to reach for the automatic telephone, flip by memory one of the hundred-odd numbers in the Times private exchange. He reads all editorials in galley proof, sprays his staff with marked clippings, suggestions for stories and editorials...
...cows and a 1,200-lb. Guernsey bull named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...chain letters became the city's biggest business, cutting heavily into retail trade. Professional operators hired hundreds of stenographers, rented big offices, sold letters to crowds of customers, who in turn sold them to other suckers. On a $5 series, notaries public certified payments to make them "cheat-proof." After one roaring day the boom faded...
...because salesmen told them the du Pont companies were backing Missouri-Kansas. Director du Pont emphatically declared that his dealings with Missouri-Kansas were entirely personal, that no oth er member of the family and no du Pont company was interested. There, said the prosecutor. Was that not clear proof that Frank Parish's salesmen had misrepresented the stock they sold...