Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...
...last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists by helping them to date their finds). Professor Mechaninov's chief discovery consisted of monuments and metallic hardware indicating a civilization...
Anthropologists at U. S. and European museums rejoiced at one adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
...calculated to inspire enthusiasm. Harvard debating remains, at its best, a training-school for Langdell Hall. And yet there seems to be no excellent reason why this should be the case. One flurry of last fall, when popular interest was seized literally by the horns, was enough to prove that we are not congenitally unforensic, that we are capable of that collective adventuring along paths somewhat dubiously intellectual but undoubtedly attractive which lies at the heart of the Cambridge or of the Oxford Union. And it is hardly to be said that we lack that intellectual immaturity which...
Designed especially to assist those members of the undergraduate body who, wishing to attend occasional lectures on subjects of cultural value in which they are interested, are yet unable to get notification of them on time, the Student Vagabond will, it is believed, by thus somewhat extending its field, prove to be even more invaluable than it was last year...