Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bacon's show may prove to be the most popular of the season; in the first week, all 19 oils have been either sold or reserved for prices ranging upward from $35,000 for the smallest multiple-image portraits. For nearly 20 years, he has been renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...
...week, turning down an appeal from Richard Speck, who was convicted last year of stabbing and strangling eight nurses to death in a Chicago dormitory, the Illinois Supreme Court denied that Speck's death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. It also rebuffed his attorneys' efforts to prove that Speck was not sane at the time of the murders and that opponents of the death penalty had been rejected as jurors when the jury was picked for his trial...
...detecting textual variations, have coordinated all the various versions and now offer what they assert is the clearest and most accurate composite text ever. Presented in facsimile form and substantially bound in leather, the enormous volume (10 in. by 14⅜ in. by 3¼ in.) will no doubt prove useful to schools and scholars. People who read Shakespeare mainly for pleasure, however, will find the original 1623 type a bit hard to decipher. Moreover, the pages have a slightly dingy look...
...Harvard School of Design is using computers to study the sources and distribution of air pollution in an attempt to prove that computer maps can be used to plan air pollution control programs...
Warning from Wilbur. It certainly could not be readily eliminated without corresponding reductions in the federal budget, and that task will not prove to be easy either. During the campaign, Nixon promised that he would hold increases in Government spending to $10 billion a year, which he estimated would be more than covered by $15 billion or so in new tax revenues that would be generated by the normal growth of the economy. He may be hard pressed to keep his spending increases to that both because of the increased outlays for defense that he advocates and the built...