Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does this mean to Harvard? In the long run it may prove something but the large share of the proof will have to come from the results turned in at the end of the season by the other colleges in the country. According to the schedule, the two weeks when there will be no television in the Boston area are October 6 and November 3. On the former the Crimson plays Columbia in New York; on the latter, the Crimson has an open date...
...weeks later, Faustino returned to the Trigo flat with a briefcase full of documents. "Right here," he said, "I have proof that you are none other than the illegitimate daughter of the late Dona Maria del Rosario Heredia de Fonte Uberta, Marquesa de Escalona del Valle, Grandee of Spain and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Here," he added, "is a copy of your mother's last will leaving you all her titles, privileges and estates...
...papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta (about $9,000) checking account at Carmen's disposal. An elderly and aristocratic spinster, hired to teach the new marchioness etiquette, announced with finality: "I need no legal proof to realize that Dona Maria is an authentic blue-blood...
...noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there was no positive proof that it had been caused by a meteor...
Only a few rhymes have known authors (e.g., Dr. Johnson, who one day suddenly spouted: "If a man who turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...