Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 400 to 500 men have complained about late checks during the past month, she said, but she wants conclusive proof in order to decide on what action to take. If the Veterans Office finds that an unusually large percentage has not been receiving subsistence allowance, she will check with Boston to make sure that the situation will be cleared up by the fall when the majority of students will be re-applying...
...balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing on, as the Indians may have done, until wind and currents actually cast it on the beach of some island...
...inside the difference was immediately noticeable. Admonitory signs were everywhere. "Have you locked your safe?" Guards checked each visitor's name against a calling list, escorted him to & from his appointment, meticulously examined each employee's special tamper-proof pass. There were no exceptions...
...like Bob Taft, he is the symbol of the New Deal, of Big Government, of hostility to business. To his friends he is a public servant of the highest order. His ability is cited by his friends as an argument in his favor, by his enemies as a proof of his danger. On one point everyone is agreed: Lilienthal, who loves horses, is a hard rider of men and ideas...
...over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse, been carried on native backs through jungles, been dropped by parachute over snow-covered wastelands...