Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against Cornell and Dartmouth, the track team will be put to an equal strain, and will have its first important chance to prove itself under Captain Burke and its new coach. The Dartmouth coach has devised an "equation of victory"--but he overlooks the unknown "x," the element of extra strength that the University trackmen will be able to call up against such worthy opponents...
...abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that the audience is on the stage from the start, that there is none of the uncomfortable five minutes usually spent in backing and filling until the craft gets...
...Somerville players are presenting this week James A. Herne's well-known drama "Sag Harbor". The simplicity and conventionality of the play would prove its undoing if it were not for the masterly acting of Frank Thomas as Captain Dan Turner, the kindly sympathetic busy-body who meddles with everyone's affairs--to their advantage. As it is, the very atmosphere of the piece, draws the attention and sympathy of the audience...
...evident that the only certain way to prove a man has been buried is to have the imprint of his finger taken just before lowering his body into the grave. And this is a detail that it is useful to know, as mystery plays and popular novels inform...
Captain Berry, playing center for the Engineers, will probably prove the hardest man for the Crimson to stop. Berry is a player of high calibre, and has developed a powerful attack for his team. Most of Worcester's scoring has been made on fake passes, in which the team is remarkably adept...