Word: proved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second nine will play St. Marks School today at Southboro. The game should prove an easy victory for the Second nine as the Freshmen defeated St. Marks on Wednesday by the score...
...point that told most for Harvard was that the scheme of a separate tariff would not work in practice, for Congress would favor the United States on account of the pressure that could be brought to bear by American manufacturers. It can safely be said that Yale did not prove clearly that the Dingley tariff would increase the price of necessaries. Yale proved that if these necessaries came from foreign countries they would have to pay a higher duty than they do now, but Harvard showed effectively that the necessaries could be supplied by the United States. In this connection...
...Finally, we must not forget that the island of Porto Rico is to be Americanized, or its possession will prove a source of weakness. If we place it within our customs boundary the capital which will flow there is sure to be American, and every commercial influence will make for assimilation. Not until this policy is carried out shall we see an Americanized Porto Rico...
...vacancy at shortstop will probably prove hardest to fill. Devens, Coolidge and George are the only candidates. Coolidge fields well and plays a heady game, but is weak in batting. Devens does not field so well but bats better. Of George, little can be said, as he is working with the pitchers. Some of the men now trying for second and third will later be available, and the outcome cannot be predicted...
Much time has been spent by the party in making detailed observations of various claims of volcanic islands, their general course and features being noted by soundings where the crests are below the surface. Many data have been gathered which prove that these island groups were formerly connected...