Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stephen's College has not only been one of the first to introduce the English in tutorial system in America, but it has realized the tenets of progressive educationalists by allowing its students complete intellectual freedom. Only men of exceptional ability are admitted, and those who do not prove qualified are dropped at the end of the second year. For most of the Juniors and Seniors there are no classes, but individual work with tutors. For all, there is a liberal administration readily adapted to the exceptional student, a successful student government, and a renunciation or intercollegiate activities...
...broadcasting companies. The broadcasting stations connected by a net work of telephone lines, are supported by advertising. Dodge Brothers Automobile Company used a great deal of radio advertising to introduce its new car. Although it costs $60,000 an hour to advertise over the air, Sarnoff went on to prove that the cost is reasonable compared with the cost of magazine advertising...
...aptitude test", a regular part of undergraduate entrance machinery at Princeton and Yale, but employed only perfunctorily at Harvard. For many the advisibility of the "capacity test" will, however, have to be proven. At present it may be pointed out that, although its advantages are evident, time alone will prove its efficiacy in weeding out the undesired element...
Europeans were expectant. For Henry Ford is a best seller everywhere upon the Continent. His works and his methods are studied and aped-especially in Germany and Soviet Russia-with the belief that they will prove the industrial salvation of those countries...
Jews have done inestimable service to music. Never, even in its most fanatical moments, has Anti-Semiticism presented any serious argument to the contrary. Now as if to prove that which has needed no proof, Gdal Saleski has compiled a catalog* of famed Jewish musicians. He stresses individual contributions, the contribution of the Jewish people as a whole...