Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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True it certainly is that many American women seem to have contributed overmuch to the $1,825,000,000 which go to make up the cosmetic bill, but it is as impossible to prove that to them as it is to prove to the Navy Department that $740,000,000 is an inordinate sum to spend on battleships; so perhaps it is advisable not to try to remedy either case. In a large navy we give the women something to powder for, and in the beautiful women the navy something to fight...
This, however, did not prove to be the case; and I consequently found myself continually running into things which had happened in various parts of the world of which I was not cognizant. This lack of knowledge was the more noticeable because of my former experience with TIME, during which I was not very often caught unawares in any discussion of a public topic...
...even should they remain adamant in their demand for tickets, there does not seem to be any reason why a large Stadium must inevitably prove an evil, though it must be admitted that the evils feared by the opponents of any change will be made more readily possible with an 80,000 capacity structure. In regard to the "professional" fear it should be remembered that there is even now, with the small Stadium, an open sale of tickets to all the games but those against Dartmouth and Yale, and that the "outside", undesirable element does not even under these conditions...
...cent, a reduction of 6 per cent over his efficiency at 70 degrees. This is the condition in many branches of industry, as in steel mills and glass works. It is believed that further work in this line, and adaptation of its results to practical problems will prove of great value in such branches of commerce...
...however, that does not blow some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient...