Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main thesis of Dr. Klein's philosophy of trade is that of mutual interest. He shows how the prosperity of any one nation depends on the prosperity of its customers and its competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such...
However one feels about this still unsettled problem, the rest of the book cannot prove of interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where...
...early tuberculosis exist: X-rays; tuberculin tests; precipitation of a suspect's blood serum by fatty phosphatide fractions of the tuberculosis germ.* Mild doses of infection immunize a person. Massive doses present great future dangers. Attempts to vaccinate babies with living cultures of the germs are likely to prove harmful, because it has been impossible to free such vaccines from virulent, deadly germs...
...Progress in aviation is not up to the mark. About all that has been done thus far has been to prove that...