Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this, the chase begins in earnest. There is an excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...
Stone upon stone to prove that we are what...
...forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When the Austrian foreign minister was recently forced by local politicians to interfere with the tyrannical regime of Mussolini in Tyrol, the result was 11 Duce...
...modern development of either, To find a remedy for the existing situation is a difficult problem. The system of concentration and distribution, now used here at Harvard, with general examinations at the final stages of progress in the subjects of concentration might be tried in the preparatory schools, and prove the solution to the problem. There must be, however, cooperation with the colleges, and one college must take the lead in starting a new system...
...America's tin supplies about 25% of American husbands would go hungry, for the simple reason that tinned* food has robbed American women of their culinary art. The U. S. is effectually sealing itself in a tin can. Half the food Americans eat is tinned." That was to prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen if the tin supply ran out and they...