Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator as Justice blindfolded with the scales in his hand, for they are preparing in hot haste their opposing cases. The French, although having little in the way of productive results to display, will show what a peaceful atmosphere hovers over the disputed territory. The Germans will try to prove how much more ruined they are now than when they declared themselves completely ruined. Imaginations on both sides will fly high and far, but judging from current reports the German imagination will fly much the higher and farther. The Ruhr German apparently has the more pronounced characteristics of Daudet...
Truly the old ideas are going by the board when the "impossible" happens, and football players prove students, even scholars with gold keys. The days of sarcasm about the "athletic course at Harvard" are over; and the ancient compliment can be altered to "an athlete and a scholar...
...ever, are not had signs at this phase of the business cycle. So long as a conservative attitude dominates the general business community, the prospect of continued healthy advance remains. This attitude promises restraint of undue expansion and therefore sustains the belief that the present good business will not prove short-lived. In manufacturing industries the physical volume of production is now slightly greater than it was at the end of 1919 or the beginning of 1920: but if allowance is made for the growth of the country, production has not yet quite reached the level of three years...
LOYALTIES-The adventures of a rich and disagreeable Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, prove that conflicts in loyalties may bring disaster. The play is always interesting, if somewhat theatric...
Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...