Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incalculable new kind of matter, but an arrangement of protons and electrons different from all other arrangements. Dr. Hopkins gave it no name for the time being, just no name for the time being, just No. 61.† He knew that it was metallic; that its atomic weight would prove to be between 144.3 and 150.4 (the weights of 60 and 62). But he could not demonstrate its properties, uses, value, having only a trace of it in the half-ounce morsel to which he had reduced his original 400 pounds of rare earth ores in his search. Scientists hailed...
...sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into it one by one. That accounted for the white cow, and the white cow appeared to prove the subterranean cavern theory of the subsidence. Geologist Lambert warned that the cavernous area might extend widely, lying perhaps under the town of Sharon Springs. When more rock dissolved, the town might some day sink...
...forward pass ruling. "I think the change is a good one," he answered. "It will provide a check on exercise use of the forward pass in the closing minutes of a game; but, with the forward pass as a definite offensive unit of the game, it may prove rather drastic for the losing team...
...Locarno Treaty, for it means the disarmament of France in front of Germany, who does not disarm, and because this treaty rests upon German goodwill, of which the least I can say is that I have never seen any proof of it. I only hope time will prove you are right, but I believe you are wrong...
...plot, or rather the puzzle, starts with a string of stolen pearls. Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments...