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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...injury Dexter received in the game Saturday is very similar to the one which laid up Finaly, though it is hoped that it will not prove as serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball Notes. | 10/30/1888 | See Source »

...number of Yale students have attempted to register in order to vote in the presidential election, but none were allowed except those who could prove a year's residence in Connecticut and six months' residence in New Haven; also that they had no other home and supported themselves without assistance from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/27/1888 | See Source »

...Yale eleven, has a brilliant record as an athlete. He is an excellent all-round baseball player, a most successful oarsman, and has made a good showing as a bicyclist. As a football player his experience has been limited, but he plays a strong, aggressive game, and will prove a valuable acquisition to the team. He is six feet, two inches in height, weighs two hundred pounds, and can run a hundred yards in remarkably good time, less than eleven seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/25/1888 | See Source »

Finlay was injured in the knee yesterday while he was rushing with the ball. It is not yet known how serious his hurt may prove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FootBall Notes. | 10/24/1888 | See Source »

...finds that it agrees with his convictions. Rather than change it he will take the tax off whiskey and tobacco. The truth is that the Republicans intend to leave the present tariff as it is, or at least to reduce it as little as possible. They are trying to prove that the higher the taxes, the better off the people are. Colonel Codman then introduced Dr. William Everett. Dr. Everett said he should not go over the familiar old arguments. He had not come to answer the Republican claims that the greater the outlay the more a man can save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tariff Reform Meeting. | 10/20/1888 | See Source »

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