Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week the U. S. Embassy was able to lay before a French military tribunal clear proof that Charles Hartmann of Hollister, Calif, had never left the U. S. since his entrance in 1872, had never been a French citizen. Obviously some rogue had taken advantage of his absence to use his name. Elaborately the tribunal apologized. The accused was free to return to Nordheim where, however, far fewer remembered Hartmann the Californian, than Hartmann...
...Green Point, L. I. the upper surface of a floor of aerocrete 4½ in. thick kept a temperature of 139° to 207° F. during the last hour of a four-hour fire of 1,825° F. blazing underneath. (The maximum temperature of a burning fire proof building averages 1,700° F.) The same floor when cooled resisted a load of 450 lb. per sq. in. with deflections ranging from...
...develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
Quebec. Observers found the greatest proof of the strength of Conservative Bennett in the "Miracle of Quebec." Since the War, the French-speaking province of Quebec has been Canada's "Solid South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT...
...Empress Zita and her followers are not attempting to make Kaiser Karl a Saint. Catholicism recognizes three degrees of sanctity: Venerable X, Blessed Y, Saint Z. Both the last two degrees require proof of at least two miracles. Blessed Y may be venerated in certain designated churches, Saint Z must be venerated in all churches...