Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacks on the Modernists, he accused the American Museum of Natural History of New York "of juggling and manipulating the musty old bones in the Hall of the Age of Man exhibit, in order to prove that man ascended from the brutes". He also accuses the Modernists of "demoralizing their congregations and transforming their churches into club rooms and "social centers" and of "destroying soul-winning zeal and power in foreign lands through the poison of their teaching...
...When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies. At the same time, they were able to prove that the able General had served brilliantly and faith fully Republican France. However, there was no sign that the French War Office was taking any notice of the agitation that was shaking its windows...
...stockmarket has continued to prove the most active spot in business. Volume has been continuing at about an average of 2,000,000 shares a day, with rising prices in both rails and industrials. Liberty bonds, on the other hand, have been weak and other gilt-edged bonds have been stationary or weak-another normal sign of a good-sized "bull market." The heavy trading in shares has drawn forth many comparisons with active markets in the past-particularly with that of 1901. As yet, however, the present market has still to equal many records established in that financial classic...
...GUARDSMAN?Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine prove that a man can't fool his wife no matter how good an actor...
...public expression and repartee, which is fostered by such open forums as the Oxford Union. In the belief that a counterpart of this phase of English university life was needed at Harvard, the Debating Union was organized by a group of men who graduated last year. Whether it will prove a permanent addition to Harvard institutions depends upon the enthusiasm with which a new college generation carries it on. An inexcusably late start this year may well be offset by selecting topics which will produce lively discussion at each meeting...