Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Harvard Lowella used to shudder, sometimes at the same time drawing the ermine wrap about her slim young shoulders, just to prove she knew her Katherine Brush. And never were her sensibilities so ravished as when she walked through the Yard at noon. Now all that will be changed. For, though the world of Beacon Hill laughed, and some of those who knew seem to have pitied, recognition of the Cabot pleadings has come at last...
...incapacity of White for a month or more during his convalescence, deale what may prove to be a fatal blow to Harvard's possibilities for victories over Yale on May 12 and 30, and for a win in the intercollegiate outdoor championship games to be played off in June...
...Junior University eight underwent a seating shift before the practice that may prove permanent owing to the removal of Allerton Cushman '29 from No. 3 position by probation...
Prosecution. What the Government had to prove was that Oilman Sinclair had conspired with Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cabinet, to lease the Teapot Dome oil reserve fraudulently in 1922. The Government proceeded to show that Fall avoided other bids for the lease until after Sinclair's lease was secretly signed; that Sinclair later gave Fall $304,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds, $233,000 being for a one-third interest in Fall's ranch, for which Sinclair never took a receipt. The Government was prepared to show that the Fall ranch...
Wilkins started for Alaska in the winter of 1926, heading what was then called "the most scientifically planned and thoroughly equipped Arctic expedition ever assembled." His twin objects were "new lands for the United States and an airway across the top of the world." Furthermore, he wanted to prove that an airplane costing about $25,000 had a special utility of its own as against an airship costing about...