Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assailant fired four revolver shots at the Chancellor, one of which took effect; after, he turned the weapon upon himself with effect thought likely to prove fatal...
...have had some experience with that sort of work in Geology 4 and 5, and I know some excellent hikes the club might take out towards Medford and Malden. I learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
Later, to prove that his fighting qualities were unimpaired, he berated foreign Powers for interfering in Chinese affairs and blamed them and them alone, for the present chaotic Chinese conditions...
...bearer, O. A. Skinner, Esq., is known to me. His parents, whom I have known in Hartford, Conn., for several years, are eminently respectable. Mr. Skinner has an ambition, a talent and a yearning for the stage. I have no doubt that he will prove an important acquisition to any theatrical corps which he may join...
Visitors to the Winter Garden can always be comfortably certain of getting the same type of blandishments. To prove this, one has only to submit this list of the outstanding features of the new "hoity-toity, gosh, we're flirty" revue...