Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true life did not please Galsworthy, who desired the disagreeable. In his play the central character does not escape and the mob does not prove the worth of democracy, but on the contrary, the hero, commits suicide and the mob triumphs to the disadvantage of democracy. Galsworthy is so full of the disagreeable that he is false to life...
...course the party in power still has a year in which to prove its inestimable value to the country. The Sixty-eighth Congress may work wonders, President Coolidge may stand forth from his present seclusion in bright and shining raiment. But the prospects for this can scarcely be called good. The so-called "radical" Republicans are expecting and expected to tie the Senate into knots; and as for the President, there are some malicious spirits who whisper that his greatest claim to wisdom lies in his decision to remain silent as long as possible. Certainly his suggestions for enforcing Prohibition...
...Allen added: "We can prove that since it began its drive for the bonus the American Legion has lost 500,000 members...
...keep only 55 quartermasters' stores; she now has 139, that is a number nearly similar to the one she had before the War, 144. If the territorial amputations suffered by the Reich are taken into account, these figures (that of 139 and that of 144) correspond strangely. They prove that today Germany has regained hold of her former organization...
...work which the British Imperial Conference is doing in London is not spectacular, but it may well prove more fruitful than the multitudinous proposals for solving the German crisis which have been filing the press of last. The chief aim of the Conference is to make the British Empire an economic as well as a political unit. Among the various methods of attaining this end, "Imperial Preference" is perhaps at once the most discussed and the most practical...