Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessarily a proof of Greek fickleness, this was all Balkan politics, true to modern Greece which since the War has produced six revolutions, four dictators and 17 governments. Even last week Greeks had no great personal admiration for George, who has spent his twelve years of exile lion-hunting in Africa, toadying to British society, and getting himself divorced by Queen Elizabeth, sister of Rumania's King Carol, who has himself divorced George's sister Helen...
Wending their way homeward yesterday after the tedium of an eleven o'clock government class, a group of Dunstermen were faced quite unexpectedly with living proof of the well known and well worn adage: "It's a wise child." On the corner, practically casting shadows across the monastic windows of Leverett's dining-room stood a young woman, of no apparent decision, waiting, perhaps, for a streetcar. Clutching her hand was what the biblical writer must have been thinking of when he referred to the little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though...
...proof that the ancient Chinese were by no means lacking in a sense of humor is a series of caricatures portraying the various types of poets. Notwithstanding the detail of slanted eyes, many of our contemporary types from long-haired Bohemians to gray-bearded George Bernard Shaws may be recognized with the help of an active imagination...
...Advocate Board is proportionally a small group, and consequently in the work of manuscript, proof, dummy and sale--all the preparation for publication--there must exist a close cooperation. This cooperation is possible because of a common interest. It is to those members of the undergraduate body who are capable of such sustained interest that the Advocate should make its strongest appeal
...Proof of the accuracy of this story may be obtained at the CRIMSON office...