Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personal Liberty. "Of course it is first necessary to know what people mean by liberty, and to differentiate sharply between liberty and license." He then read several extracts from Opposition newspapers, in which the Government had been criticized, to prove that anyone could say whatever he liked and that, therefore, personal liberty did exist...
...etching for the first time in complete visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...
...percentages after being all set out seem to prove very little except the obvious. Advertising has increased. Radio has made its appearance. Sport has picked up. But in general the analysis fails to prove anything. It is only by getting at the figures of the actual quantity of news retailed that changes are really apparent...
...whole the comparison is not unfavorable to 1924. But it still is greatly lacking in significance. Here is quantity. But what of quality and kind? It is in quality and kind of matter that the newspapers of today must really prove their progress...
...high point in Mr. Chaloner's contacts with the spirit world came when he respectfully called upon "Mister Shakespeare," who obligingly responded (via Mr. Chaloner's pencil), stated he wished to refute the prevailing deplorable impression that he had meant Hamlet to be mad, and just to prove it, he had written two new scenes. Mr. Chaloner then read them, announced sternly that "Mister Shakespeare's" spirit had promised they should some day be produced on Broadway. When that happens, no one will recognize Hamlet. Ophelia will no longer be mad. "Mister Shakespeare" said he only made Ophelia...