Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was told that the very life-breath of Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...
...soon make her much less amenable to compulsion. At present in urgent need of foreign capital to finance her industry, Germany must tread carefully to avoid offending her possible sources of credit, especially the United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement out of the sharp divergences of opinion that preceded the conference, no human agency can forsee the needs of half a century to come...
...Swaim '31 was at bow in the second University shell during the workout and B. J. Harrison '29, another strong contender for the stroking berth, was pulling the No. 6 car in the first eight. Allerton Cushman '29 who has also been given an opportunity to prove his worth in the stroke position was back at his old place at No. 5 yesterday afternoon...
...adapt himself to the other side of the boat he may show up better in the future. Neither Swaim nor Watts have figured much during the last week since both are known quantities and Coach Brown is now more interested in letting the unknown men prove their worth...
...from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident is destiny...