Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard thing to prove that a man is drunk, or even that he has been drinking. And the more prominent the man, the harder the proof...
Facing the University of Pennsylvania in what will probably prove to be the most hotly contested college tennis encounter of the season, the Crimson tennis team will take to the courts at the Philadelphia Country Club this morning at 10 o'clock. Last night at 10.45 o'clock a squad consisting of Coach H. L. Cowls, eight players, and Manager R. M. Bonnet '28 left the South Station for Philadelphia...
...instance, the strictest necessity a true scientific method is to avoid assuming that a merely coincident factor or condition is a cause. To prove scientificaly that crime is due to endocrinal defects, one would have to show not only that all criminals are defective in that respect, but that all endocrinal defectives are criminals! It may be so, but it is far from proved...
...government can make a success of the Muscle Shoals plant under the Norris plan which not only pays for itself, but also is concerned with the public interest through the manufacture of fertilizers, a precedent will be established for further government control. At all events, should the test prove successful or not, the House would do well to follow the lead of the Senate and give the Norris plan the chance to prove its worth...
...more than six hundred graduates of American colleges have made use of them to study at Oxford. Now these alumni of the great English university are planning to show their appreciation by raising an endowment fund to be used by it for building and research purposes or, if it prove necessary in later years, to supplement the original Rhodes Fund...