Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founders and first President of the Bankers Trust Company and was subsequently Chairman of the Board of Directors of that company The late H. F. Davidson, Seward Prosser, and T. W. Lamont '92, are among the men whose ability he early recognized and to whom he gave opportunity to prove their powers...
...boys who were commended by their foremen and superintendents and brought them over to our Psycho-Educational Clinic for intelligence tests. The results ought not to have been taken as showing that anyone we found is a genius. Intelligence tests do not reveal genius and are not intended to prove that those who rank high on them are going to set the world on fire. A high score in an intelligence test indicates a marked capacity to learn...
Professional baseball has again covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...
Whatever the reasons, Mr. Dyar's example may prove of value to everyone. Even the college undergraduate, weary of intellectual work which seems unending, may turn to an humbler and a purer diversion in his spare time by assisting the workmen in the Yard. In which case it may be proved that the person who last spring lighted the fire in Massachusetts Hall was neither a criminal nor a lunatic, but a philanthropic psychologist of unusually far and reaching vision...
...that it is impossible for, President Coolidge to secure a majority of the votes of the Electoral Coollege, owing to the revolt within the ranks of his own party in the West and North-west, renders it advisable, in order to avoid a debacle in National affairs which might prove disastrous to the industrial life of America, for thinking men to support the candidacy of Mr. John W. Davis, unquestionably the most attractive candidate the Democratic party has presented in a century...