Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, the result of the German election revealed gains for the Monarchists (Nationalists) and Communists and losses for the Moderates. The new Reichstag is vastly more interesting than the last but will undoubtedly prove more turbulent. The Moderates, however, secured a majority, but are not in such a strong position as formerly. Groups. A provisional list of the new Reichstagers by groups: Moderates 229 Monarchists 141 Communists 59 Others 19 Individuals. Among the more prominent men elected or reflected: Chancellor Marx (Moderate), Foreign Minister Stresemann (Moderate), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Moderate), ex-Chancellor Wirth...
...bounced to Boston. He would have found in session, The Church Congress, the proceedings of which were, by comparison, tame. Bishop Lawrence celebrated Holy Communion. Incense was not perceptible. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard, said: "Bible and Church have frequently been wrong and their complete consent will prove in the end to have less power than truth and facts, for these alone are valid, authentic and infallible." No one threw bricks at him. Miracles, divorce, industry, eugenics, creeds, were all quite thoroughly discussed. All present were Protestants, protesting as they chose against whatever untruth or unrighteousness...
...Clarence Mackay's fervid and interesting attack on the modern tendency to place life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under bureaucratic control" is unfortunately based upon a slight error of historical analysis. New Jersey's well advertised Blue Laws unmistakably prove that "the pursuit of happiness", especially on Sundays, was carefully regulated by the government long before the present generation of "self-seeking people" arrived on the scene. And if Mr. Mackay pushed his historical inquiries a little further he would discover that the price of bread and ale in England was wont to be fixed by town authorities...
...government has been made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business rivals will always act for the eventual good of the public...
...Captain Henry, and the coaches. The Harvard crews are working under the handicap of learning a new stroke; and a complete mastery of the new rowing technique is scarcely to be expected, especially in an opening race. The long delay in getting out on the ice-blocked Charles will prove a handicap now, if ever. Yet such has been the enthusiasm of the squad and such the efforts of the coaches that there is little doubt but that these handicaps have been largely overcome...