Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poll was not intended as a "weapon," it could not "boomerang." Our aim was to find the truth. If we have failed in that it remains for others to do a better job. We have facts to back up our conclusion; when you make charges, the burden of proof...
...League's newspaper, "Defense," in which the results of the poll are published today, calls the results proof of "the falsity of charges that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals, cynics, and pacifists." The poll was taken on the system of the Gallup researches into public opinion, questioning a cross-section of the students...
...maniacal frenzies, personally shot two members of his own staff, when they tried to persuade him to resign after the report was confirmed that General Blanquete, whose troops had been called into the city to aid Madero, was training his guns on Madero's palace. There is abundant proof, attested by written statement of the Ambassadors of England, Spain, Germany and Brazil and by the American colony in Mexico City, that Ambassador Wilson did everything possible to insure the safety of Madero, and that his arrangement of a special train to take Madero out of the country was foiled...
...resurrection, ends his Bible: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." But he believed in his own version. He wrote of it: "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...
...latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...