Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to prove that farming can be made a success and that it is entitled to the same consideration from capital and businessmen as any other industry. It presents the greatest opportunity today for the mechanical engineer. It is rather hard to increase the selling price of a commodity which competes with foreign markets and does not have tariff protection. The alternative is to reduce the cost of production or get tariff protection...
Confronted with such news, Clinton W. Gilbert, Washington correspondent with a couple of books to his credit, revived the rumor that Secretary of State Kellogg is soon to resign. Meanwhile, The Nation, provocative weekly, devoted a page to prove that "Kellogg Must...
Thoreau, as anyone familiar with that distinguished circle of New England transcendentalists which included Emerson and Hawthorne among its members, will know, became immortal when he made his famous experiment at Walker Pond. Here, desiring to prove that man could be as independent as the animals, he lived in a hut supporting himself by tilling a small plot and doing odd jobs in the neihboring village--and renouncing the society of men, for the society of birds...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has sanctioned what may prove to be the most noteworthy development in the college since the general examinations and tutorial instruction were introduced. The amount of teaching is to be cut down...
Besides serving as counsellor and friend, the parrot may prove to be a literary inspiration, and any future poems on the subject of a 'bird in his gilded cage' may be directly traced to his influence...