Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidence is accumulating to prove that the country is facing a more acute situation in the coal industry than the public realizes. It has been the general assumption that the coal problem could not possibly be worse than during the past year, but labor leaders and employers fear that the worst...
...accepted opinion that he is the only man in the game who can stand at Dempsey's level. There is vague talk of a fight between the two at the Polo Grounds on Labor Day. Wills deserves his chance. His unobtrusive steadiness between professional engagements would seem to prove that he would grace a title with more dignity than certain of his Ethiopian brethren of the past. Then, too, Dempsey must fight soon again-or revert to digging coal...
...comes the report that a London musician, Signor Fortoni, has devised a typewriter which copies a sheet of music complete with all the signs. It appears that the new machine is a complicated affair, and that its cost of manufacture is a formidable affair. If the device should prove to be commercially practicable, it will be a great aid to musicians, since the labor of writing out large scores is a heavy burden upon composers. Of course, it may be that the effort of using the music typewriter will prove to be as great as that...
...Yale and Harvard, but if six come, more will follow. There are less than 100 Rhodes scholars from America--but there are 250 Americans at Oxford. The scholarships, in each case, form a definite nucleus around which to build up a permanent student representation. However, small numbers may almost prove of advantage. At Oxford, there is danger lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with...
...after all, the play is not merely a collection of character sketches. It is a fundamentally moral dissertation to prove that the world cannot be reformed overnight, and that common sense can usually conquer pure idealism. It is serious, emotional, dramatic, interesting. Perhaps it is too serious and too emotional--there is rather too much oratory, and the sentiment is a little too obvious. The author, like his hero, seems too much imbued with the spirit of romanticism to suit this twentieth century taste; but he does well in spite of his defects, and the acting carries the whole through...