Word: proved
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upon either the class or the day, but we will earnestly hope and devotedly pray that the day itself will not be very warm; that the marshals will be as elegant in their appearance as the combined efforts of art and nature can make them; that the oration will prove all that can possibly be desired; that the poem will be entirely satisfactory; that the spreads will not be overcrowded; that the evening will be fine; and, finally, that the fair creatures who may honor the occasion by their presence, as they gather their tattered trains about them and depart...
...following advertisement from the same paper may prove refreshing to those who have now to grind under circumstances less favorable than those it mentions...
Yale is to row a slow stroke of 32 or 34 to a minute; Harvard, the old stroke of 36 to a minute. Whichever wins, we shall probably have a long newspaper discussion, attempting to prove that the stroke of the winning crew is the better stroke. One trial proves nothing. the successful stroke for a number of years will be a more convincing argument...
...WHAT THOU WILT;and I will engage to prove that any action that any one may take a fancy to is at least not wrong according to the glorious doctrine of probabilities, the last apotheosis of this philanthropic system...
There are only two men whom the action can harm, and in so far as it harms them it is wrong (vide Locke). Now, if we can prove that it actually produces more pleasure than pain in the long run, or, in other words, that it produces less harm than good towards these two, we shall be justified in the action...