Word: proof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...melodrama of your layout, the overweening nature of your analysis (e. g. running the broadcast under head "The Crime"; classifying my proposals as "most of the bad things that could happen to American education . . . run in space usually reserved for proof hacks, errors in grammar," etc) are engagingly representative of the emotive, superficial and desultory thinking that seems to characterize the mind trained at a university operating under your educational philosophy. And this is the mind which quite naturally resents any attempt at discipline or orientation on the part of educated and responsible elders who have had more extensive...
...violated due process of law because; it was too vague, "a 'dragnet' which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of government"; it lacked provisions for judicial proof of individual membership in subversive groups; it set up a "presumption of (organizational) guilt"; and the law constituted 'guilt by association' with a vengeance...
...argument flared up again. The president of the Seville Royal Academy of Belles Lettres announced that he had "historical proof" that bones newly discovered in a Carthusian monastery were those of Christopher Columbus. The announcement was received with cold disbelief by the custodians of Columbus' white marble mausoleum in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, which claims to have the remains of the discoverer...
...Truman signed it, the bill would, in effect, reverse the Supreme Court's cement decision. It would permit freight absorption, provided that prices 1) are independently arrived at and 2) do not eliminate competition. More important, the bill would take business off the defensive. Where the burden of proof now lies on business to show its innocence of any collusion, the new bill would require the Government to prove beyond doubt that an actual conspiracy to fix prices existed. Thus, even if rising prices should result from actions taken individually by companies, the Government would still have to show...
What makes Buckley's broadcast a lot less funny than the proof-reading mistakes or misplaced slug's is that its sponsors claim they have received more than 18,000 requests for reprints. A director of Kalamazoo College has requested copies for the College's Trustees. The "Editorial Director" of the broadcast's sponsoring organization says "Buckley may be leading an educational crusade." If so, he is leading it straight downhill...