Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conviction of experts that "the next war will be decided in the air" would appear to be an even more cogent argument for the granting of sufficient appropriations. In case of a national emergency the 5-5-3 naval ratio which Congress has promised to investigate may prove far less decisive than the condition of the United States air forces...
Whatever the results of this curious exportation may be, they promise to be of peculiar interest to Americans. It may prove a most beneficial shock to somewhat provincial citizens to view "theatres, schools, and laws" modelled on their own through the clarifying perspective of the Atlantic...
...complicated by the fact that the spoken language of the people and the written language of literature are very different Added to the poverty of people and government and the natural difficulty of mastering the thousands of characters required to convey Chinese thought on paper this handicap might prove insurmountable. In spite of these grave difficulties Chinese educators have launched an advertising campaign to impress the people with the desirability of national literacy which has already begun to prove its effectiveness...
...Chinese have happily hit upon a scheme which may prove a practical solution for the American problem of illiteracy. The facilities for acquiring a reading and writing knowledge of English are widely available; school attendance is compulsory for a number of years in every state; extension courses are offered by most metropolitan universities; the Y. M. C. A. and Americanization bureaus conduct innumerable elementary courses. At the same time the tide of illiterates which once came from Europe has been checked by law. What is now necessary is apparently a broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities...
...disconcerting way in which Yale has of late been victorious in her athletic contests has defied explanation. But with the rashness of men certain of graduation the Yale Senior class has revealed what might prove to be the puzzling secret: for four years the most cherished ambition of the men of '24 has been the winning of a "Y". The Phi Beta Kappa key which for generations was voted the highest honor a Yale man could receive has definitely fallen into that limbo toward which Ralph Henry Barbour first pushed it. Against men who find college dormitories merely a convenient...