Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confident thai the contract will prove to be the forerunner of other projects of a similar kind. We welcome American capital and American business men to Russia, and will accord them every facility and consideration...
...hope this may prove to be the work of some raw reporter and that you are gentlemen enough to apologize for it. I notice you do not "Point with Pride" to this paragraph...
Robert E. Sherwood has written a delightfully trite, for it is so true, "Standard Speech for Coaches on the Eve of the Big Event," Sandwiched between Sherwood and George S. Chappell on "Modern Developments in Collegiate, Rowing". John Dos Passos has been called in to prove that the program is not alone of athletes, by athletes, for athletes. In "What About the Theatre?" Dos Passos heralds the birth of an American Theatre, "as hopelessly lyrically American as cigarette ads or Coca-Cola...
...World printed the story, but not prominently. Other editors, less cynical, printed the account in full with prominence on their first or second pages. Time will prove whether or not the story was veracious...
...that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish evidence of mental alertness of a critical disapproving sort. If the offended and offending college publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness of emptiness in American life which the colleges are falling to fill, and of an incompleteness of development which education is falling to correct; and this dawning consciousness is expressing itself in random shots at things...