Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange ship Baden-Baden, with a black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps...
...announcement in the CRIMSON this morning concerning the pamphlet just published by the University in which figures prove that not only have the proportion of entrants to Harvard from high and preparatory schools remained the same as the numbers have increased but that the enrollment is now even more representative of the country at large is more than merely entertaining reading. To those who have during the last few months interested themselves more and more in the function of the University these statistics are one more illuminating reference to a state of affairs which should be adequately understood...
...Professor Dines Out", which appears in the June "Harpers", has then a special interest as the second of a series. For this essay is but a triad of anecdotes tending to prove the thesis of its predecessor. In a word, the new professor in a provincial college receives few invitations to dinner and those he does receive lead to utter social failures. He finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently...
...Cornell 2, Dartmouth 2, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which...
...company has accordingly arranged a public demonstration before a Mayor Quinn. Chief Inspector P. J. Hurley, and other municipal notables to prove the absolute safety of their vests. In order that the whole affair might be quite open and above board the Boston agents decided to get a Harvard man to appear as the wearer of the vest. An offer of $25 was made to any student who would brave the point-blank fire of a pistol in the interests of public safety and knowledge...