Word: proofed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Deutsche Tagesseitung: "The final proof is now furnished that the Allies will treat us as a people who have lost their sovereignty...
...these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation for life, or that the burden of proof rests upon him who would argue against it rather than upon him who would argue for it. But just what benefit should be expected it is not easy to say, because so much is expected. Similarly the average college graduate scarcely knows how to say just what he owes...
...which fell under the ban of censorship. If the two Harvard publications are representative of the others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish evidence of mental alertness of a critical disapproving sort. If the offended and offending college publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness of emptiness in American life which the colleges are falling...
...Mitchell's discovery, after years of patient investigation, is of great historical interest; for, although many theories of her innocence have been expounded, this is the first time that definite proof of it has been discovered...
...rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked out upon the Arctic winter from their dim cells, while fierce storms shattered...