Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first consulting body; and under his hands their grew up at Schenectady one of the best electircal laboratories in the world. Once shown the possibilities of science, the commercial world has not been slow; but it had to be shown. Among the first of those who could really prove that an investment in scientific knowledge brought substantial returns was Dr. Steinmetz; that alone makes him one of the immortals...
...college men." Rightly or wrongly, too, the game as now played requires a coach who will act as field marshal and take most of the weight of responsibility on his own shoulders. The captain has responsibility enough; to burden him with the duty of removing and substituting men would prove overwhelming. If Harvard wishes to win even a reasonable number of its games, it must "play the game" as it finds...
...Coolidge--an ability that is far from failing him in his most recently published collection of essays and addresses. That this collection includes papers on such men as Dana (he of the "Two Years", fame), John Burroughs, James Russell Lowell, Emerson, and the late Colonel Higginson, should prove a sufficient guarantee of interest to those who know him; and a charming introduction for those who do not. While the article which opens the volume, an entirely human consideration of Erasmus' "Praise of Folly", is so admirable a proof that the Renaissance sage is by no means dead and gone...
...been more successful than any other in explaining certain well known facts in spectrum analysis. His model is probably the most successful and interesting to the physicist that has ever been conceived. His work has been more to establish certain facts about the electron than to prove its existence...
...squad worked themselves into a frenzy and then proceeded to tear each other to pieces. Without doubt such an event would put new energy into the team. But coming on the eve of the Dartmouth game with a series of hard games in sight, such a strenuous experiment might prove costly. Last year there was no fight week...