Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, he might have been a disappointment. No one can say what would have happened under normal weather conditions. That is what makes the season in a way seem wasted. Yale had a good team. She thought it was her year. She deserved her chance to prove it. We thought that we could stop her, and we deserved our chance. Conditions forced the preconceived plans of both teams to be discarded. It was the most unsatisfactory outcome possible. I would rather have been beaten 50 to 0 on a dry field...
...impossible for one man to see half of them. It is unfair to pick a man for an All-American team when the picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even if you expert does see a man play once, he may get a wrong impression. The man may be playing far above or far below his normal game...
...Bauer plays the Symphonic studies better than did Mr. Grainger, we should like to hear him. It is really astounding that a pianist should prove himself master of so many styles...
...neither a recognizable governing party nor a recognized Opposition. What the reported conferences among the Liberal leaders and between Baldwin and the king will bring forth ought soon to be apparent. Whether it be some loose coalition or a reconstructed Conservative cabinet under a new leader, it can only prove the most temporary of make-shifts. The situation cannot be cleared up, however, until the permanent trouble is removed--until either one of the parties is outlawed, or a dual system, changed to meet the exigencies of a triangular competition...
Premier Stanley Baldwin, Conservative candidate for Bewdley, made important speeches at Glasgow and Bradford. He said that he was taking the course advocated and approved by the late Mr. Bonar Law in calling a general election. Throughout, Mr. Baldwin based his protectionist policy on empiricisms calculated to prove that his policy was the only one which was capable of ameliorating the hectic economic troubles of the day. "We know how many industries depend on partly manufactured goods and raw materials ; we shall take no step without consultation with those industries. If any monopolies result they will be monopolies at home...