Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated that not a week passes without one of the "aforesaid scions of steel czars" etc, "figuring in some lurid scandal". Even if I obtained my statistics from the issues of the most thoughtful, clean, and public-spirited members of our Boston press, I think I could successfully prove that the inventor of this "line" has slightly over-reached himself...
...would not open the sport to the many enthusiasts that now line the benches. We suggest an intramural football league of class or other teams as more fully meeting the demand. Above all, we shy at the idea of a 150-pound eleven being established officially lost it prove an added ramification of a sport that already receives a dangerous amount of emphasis. Football fills a large enough space in the University's life as large enough space in the university's life as things stand now. Any further expansion should be kept within our own gates. The Princetonian...
...cockney is not alone in tracing its antecedents to ancient royalty. If England is going to resort to etymology to prove even her slang good English, common Americans are equally justified in defending themselves. Clerk is supposed to rhyme with lark in the best English, yet no less a writer than Chaucer coupled it with world. Plebian "ain't" appears in Thackery, apparently quite good form. While if the beaux and macarouss of Pope's day were to appear today and tald as they did in the drawing rooms of London, and ordinary American might well imagine they were telling...
...this prediction from the pen of another Harvard delegate prove true...
...take the matter even more to heart. Accepted though the custom may be of poking fun at "English A" and its strictures, there was much wisdom behind its inauguration Mr. Gavit has had some very decisive things to say on the subject, "outsider" though he may incidentally, we must prove our rights to an education at Harvard if Harvard is to mean anything in the future, and when a "red-cap" shows us the way, he if only in a single instance, it is time to look to our laurel...