Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...superman. It denies the philosophy that runs to the deification of the state." He looked ahead to a world in troubled peace, the demobilization of millions, the final loss of U. S. markets in Europe, the Orient, Africa, Latin America ("The record of the last seven years is proof sufficient that the Roosevelt Administration is incapable of meeting this situation . . ."). He summed up: "And yet this Administration, in nonchalant and sprightly fashion, bluntly asks the American people to grant it at least an additional four years of power...
...through a series of jazz-heated formations. The accompaniment of one of them is true, improvised boogie-woogie by Pianist Sidney Tuscher of the hand-picked pit orchestra. Staged by the Russian choreographer George Balanchine, fellow Slav of Composer Duke (real name Vladimir Dukelsky), Cabin in the Sky is proof that for fun and verve there is nothing like a theatrical League of Races...
Dean Chauncey questioned 67 holders of the scholarships in the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes on their activities during the vacation months since their junior years in high school, and the answers give a definite proof that "Mr. Conant's little boys" do not spend their summers with their noses in textbooks...
...Negro leaders proof of that point was less important last week than establishing the equality of the races in the U. S.'s new Army. So concerned were they with the Jim Crow issue that they subordinated another point, somewhat less than frank, in the War Department's statement...
...Ministry talked about unleashing new, hidden fleets of fighters and bombers-fresh proof that Britain could survive. Laborite Arthur Greenwood, Minister Without Portfolio in the inner War Cabinet, made public the first official promise that vengeance for Londoners-demanded now by billboards appearing in London-would be wreaked on Berliners. Said he: "What has been done to London will be doubled to Berlin...