Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scenery gives ample proof that musical comedy "sets" do not have to be conventional, or designed by Joseph Urban in order to be successful, and, as I have remarked before, the chorus is well worth seeing. It is a play for which you do not regret having paid the price of admission, but you hesitate before re-commending it to your friends. In other words it is an "average" musical comedy...
...winning from the Yale freshmen, the 1920 eleven shed a ray of light on an otherwise dark day. It is a satisfaction to look into the future, for we have proof that these Freshmen are "the stuff that teams are made...
...regulars were given a long rest following the Cornell game and a partly substitute team was started against Virginia. The substitutes showed up extremely well and walked over the Southerners by a 51-to-0 score. This game was a final proof of the fact that the University had "come back," for seven touchdowns were scored by the first, second and third string substitutes. The Crimson team had changed from an aggregation of eleven men each of whom appeared good individually, to a machine of eleven men, all working as a unit, into which substitutes could be added without impairing...
...rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above our heads shot and shell seemed to pass for several hours with unexampled violence. That night also was 'stormy,' but since then, that is for the last five days, there has been little else...
...occupancy by November 1. They were to have been finished for the opening of the new buildings and the delay has caused many students who had engaged rooms in them to locate elsewhere temporarily. The dormitories, when finished, will be divided throughout into sections by means of fire-proof doors, each section containing both single rooms and suites. Unlike the Freshman dormitories of the University, there will be no rooms furnished with baths, but large shower rooms will be conveniently located on each floor...