Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of the Chapel Committee opposed any change on the ground that it would not increase the attendance, B. McK. Henry '24, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, advocated the 7 o'clock hour. A change, he held, at least would do no harm and might very likely prove beneficial...
Beebe is, primarily, the scientist. But only one chapter of Galápagos: World's End* is enough to prove him incurably romantic. Beebe is one of those few fortunate men who are doing, as I imagine it, exactly as they please. If he wishes to go to the end of the world, he finds someone to take him there-and he usually discovers exactly what he started out to find...
...film-the largest sum ever spent in producing a cinema. Its excessive costliness was one of the reasons for the company's capital difficulties last Fall and Winter, and upon its returns will largely depend much of its success this year. The company believes that the picture will prove very profitable, but that the full returns from it will not be obtained for two or three years. Inventories of the company increased from $13,211,508 in 1922 to $15,338,482 last year-just about the cost of the "feature film." Another item in this 1923 inventory...
...rather mature statement of one phase of Pacifism. To be a pacifist undoubtedly requires a struggle. It is a struggle with more or less natural feelings, with carefully inculcated ideas, with popular opinion. One disregards the facts who considers pacifism the easy way to tread. Whether it will prove to be the best way is still a matter of opinion. In any case, there appears to be no sound reason for treating a pacifist any more harshly than a Yale man, or an Eskimo or a Baptist. Different, no doubt: but not irrevocably lost...
...other hand" he continued, "closer inspection may prove that there is more to his viewpoint than we had at first imagined. I don't see any risk in either case, since these speakers merely present ideas. It seems to me there is much more reason to allow them to speak to a group of trained men than to permit them to talk on street-corners...