Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper to try to influence public opinion is on its editorial page. It may be its duty to express the hope that the rumor it prints on its front page will prove to be false, but it is equally its duty to print the rumor...
...ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides to live forever after in accordance with that personality which was discovered...
...Administrations, came through the Democratic Party." 3) "The farmer has learned one thing about the tariff, and that is that it compels him to buy in a highly protected market and to sell in a free world market." Amounts contributed by large manufacturers who are beneficiaries of the tariff prove the iniquitous character of the policy. 4) Republicans defeated farm relief in the 69th session. 5) Democrats favor "an honest trade law that will stimulate business by fair competition and produce revenue to the government instead of "a high protective tariff for the benefit of special interests...
...condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel, over the Dolomites, Syria and Arabia, the Indian Ocean, New South Wales-13,000 miles. Cobham planned to relax for a day or two, then fly home again. Object: to prove that airplanes can traverse the most hazardous, inaccessible arcs of the globe...
...enormous captive dragons, ten feet long, with claws and jaws rapacious enough to slaughter horses, veritable St. Georgian monsters,* "emitting fumes not unlike smoke. Cobham planned to rest at Melbourne only long enough to have his ship overhauled. Then he was off again for England. He hoped to prove the feasibility of air-routes over impenetrable, hazardous portions of the globe...