Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during their secret practice brings back many strange tidings. He reports that no Dartmouth man is considered to have written a "real" poem unless he has taken a sixty mile snow-shoe ramble up and down the mountains, and that nobody is worshipped as a football hero who cannot prove by his trousseau his impeccable taste in knickers, sweaters, and socks...
...School of International Relations to be established at Geneva this summer does not look on youthful discussion of problems as the best way to an understanding of them, and perhaps for that reason will prove to be more valuable. The purpose of the School is distinctly stated to be an objective study of international affairs, through lectures by experts, and first-hand investigation of the workings of the League of Nations. Naturally such a School will appeal primarily to students who intend to go into some branch of the diplomatic service, but it should also prove interesting to students...
...Whatever may be said to the contrary, I am a fervent loyal monarchist and shall prove it by making a personal manifestation on the King's jubilee, which will leave no doubts on the subject...
...step into this pulpit dedicated to the memories of two Christian mothers,* with a deep desire to prove worthy of the high trust. I, too, have a mother in the unseen world. The last time I ever saw her, and the last time she ever saw me with earthly eyes, was here in New York on the night that I was ordained to the Christian ministry. May she, too, join the group that looks down from the battlements of Heaven to bless us here...
...Jones succeeds in regaining his lost title of 1923 it will be one of the rare occurrences of golf history. Although there have been champions who have led the field year in and year out consistently these occasiions have been the exceptions that prove the rule that golf titles are no things to be mathematically reckoned, but rather crowns presided over by chance and fate...