Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convention were listed as McAdoo states-California, Idaho, Iowa. Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota-Mr. Davis carried not one; in fact he ran third in all of them except Kansas. "Is not McAdoo holding out on us," some Democrats cried at the time, "trying to prove that he is the only man who could carry the West...
That the student employment bureau is to function in earnest comes as good news for all. Statistics were hardly necessary to prove that Harvard has been behind other universities in smoothing out the financial difficulties of a college career. While the Committee on Vocations reports a high degree of success in its efforts toward placing men after graduation, and the present bureau has always handled well requests for summer positions, there has been not enough of that more important aid throughout the college year to which that revised bureau will especially devote itself. It is the lack of such encouragement...
...curious that scientists are taking the initiative in an attempt to prove the reality of spirits. A natural skepticism of the limits of their own ability should be a part of their intellectual make-up, but to strike boldly into a field at which they have previously scoffed bespeaks courses. Ever, stranger is the failure of the mediums to bring with positive, phenomena. They are contending with in audience which is willing to give the medium the benefit of the doubt as far as that is consistent: with scientific accuracy, and yet nothing has been established...
...kicking two long field goals. Although he had a strong wind with him, either of them would have been good for forty yards on a calm day. These were the first dropkicks scored by Yale this year, and supporters of the Blue were becoming fearful lest this defect might prove an important factor in the big games ahead. Scott is also a first-class defensive back, in-fact almost the equal of Allen. If the speedy Tiger backs rip through the Yale line as they did through Harvard's he will be an invaluable asset to the Elis...
...world," says the author, "is already too full of moral lectures and serious reformers; and while I trust my efforts may prove instructive to the uninitiated, my ambition is also to be hailed a welcome raconteur." The public press is daily informing Mr. Wellman that this ambition has been gratified. One Heywood Broun of The New York World, in a column devoted to this book, is on record to the effect that after reading Gentleman of the Jury, he regretted for the first time that the laws of New York State exempted newspaper men from jury duty...