Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found himself hopelessly blocked by the laggards at the head of the stretch, finished ninth in a field of eleven. The winner: Hal Price...
First scent of the bovine enterprise was whiffed by Princeton men, and simultaneously by the staff of the Daily Princetonian. Proof that "Prince" staffers have a nose for news came when 30-odd barns were discovered not far from the Princeton campus, wherein the manure is mixed, heated, steamed, pulverized, and blasted...
...lead the Tito-organized resistance movement along with Hoxha. In 1945 Shehu was shipped to Moscow, returned the next year to become chief of staff of the Albanian army and general secretary of the party. He is Albania's only Moscow-trained Communist leader. Shehu, a 100-proof career Stalinist, has more ability, guile, circumspection and hardheadedness than Hoxha...
...Advocate, in reducing its price to 25 cents, has economized on its proof-reading. There are no less than seven errors, including a delightful variant spelling: "sneakres...
Hits & History. There are plenty of fans who maintain that Ted has already achieved it. They consider him a greater player than even jolting Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees and Stan ("The Man") Musal of the St. Louis Cardinals. As proof, they point to Ted's 43 homers last year (265 in eight seasons*) and his eight-year batting average with the Red Sox. At .353 it is the third highest in modern baseball records, right behind Ty Cobb's .367 (for 24 seasons) and Rogers Hornsby's .358 (for 23) and ahead of such immortals...