Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort was being made to run ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for President of the German Republic. Said Hall-Halfen: "We do not expect that Prince Wilhelm will accept now, but 3,000,000 German voters are already behind him, with more joining daily. The recent State Assembly elections prove that German sentiment is swinging toward the Right, which will aid the Prince Wilhelm campaign by making his candidacy irresistible...
Sixty-seven claims were allowed. Those claimants who could not prove direct pecuniary loss had their claims rejected. Thus, where death involved no financial loss to a relative or dependent, no award was made. Two hundred cases have yet to be considered...
...present management of the American Chicle Co. comes up for reelection at its annual stockholders' meeting on March 4 next, but a number of prominent stockholders have made up their minds to make this function rather more stirring than such meetings usually prove. They have organized a stockholders' protective committee, and are out to obtain proxies for a majority of the 155,000 outstanding shares; already they have proxies for 65,000. They propose to have the scalp of H. T. Blodgett, President of the Company, and to effect several reforms, in their opinion demanded by the business...
...course of the recent winter season, Coach Farrell has developed an extraordinarily well balanced team, and in today's meet he will be able to enter men in early every event who will prove serious contenders for places...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...