Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stirrings of Life were found at the University of New Mexico, where the Indian-mission buildings are "still copies, but at least of a tradition local and native." Proof that "the best powers of the American mind in action" are capable of creating a form "good, clean, elementary, logical, impelling;" was found, and illustrated in the football stadia of Yale, Leland Stanford, the University of California. "Perhaps in the distant future this form will be repeated, but reduced to a size commensurate with humbler pursuits...
That some men may occasionally achieve greatness or success without the advantage of a college training is no proof that the average individual would succeed as well nor that the gifted person would not have accomplished still more if college-trained...
...Dial parody. To disqualify the Advocate would be not less a slander upon its public and the University than a stigma upon the intelligence and sincerity of the postal authorities. A reinstatement in the privileges of the mails will be a vindication of the Advocate's excellent parody and proof incontrovertible of the sense of fairness and intellectual honesty which must govern the decisions of the political agents of a free people...
...Herrick has been U. S. Ambassador to France for seven years. Did M. Doumergue speak as reported, it was a gratuitous insult, or a proof that he is not yet able to say what he means in English...
From London came a report that the Bulgarian government had captured dispatches from Moscow to local communists, establishing beyond doubt that the Third Internationale had planned the revolt-that the documents had been exhibited to the representatives of the powers as proof of a need for more Bulgarian troops...