Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your favor of the 7th announcing FORTUNE just received suggests a forthcoming publication which should prove to be most acceptable to the intelligent reading public. However, I am nearing my seventy-sixth birthday and while I hope to continue TIME, I am cutting off magazines. ... I wish you every success and regret that...
...based on an underestimation of the importance the student mind places in athletics and an over estimation of the difficulty of the Exeter entrance requirements which are supposed to provide the necessary check on athletes. If such be the case, it may be expected that the new course will prove its faults in actual operation and that the Exeter authorities will come to a realization that some relation between studies and athletics must be maintained if an undue emphasis is not to be placed on the latter...
...minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga; and if true, it goes to prove once more that history repeats itself. Tommy Loughran, out on his feet in his recent fisticuff with "Boston Jack" Sharkey, is reported to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Jack". Like Bowman...
...Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence she bombarded Queen Mary Tudor with letters demanding to be released...
Whatever the material effects of the agreement may be, however, there can be little doubt that it represents the culmination of a movement long in the process of evolution which may prove to have much more than local significance in the age-old struggle between town and gown. With the industrial development of many university towns, there has inevitably sprung up a good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages...