Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was one of his chief evidences to prove that America is governed by women; the great increase of restrictive laws in this country as well as the great increase in general legislation in the last years. Prohibition, among other things, Count Keyserling cites as proof that America is in reality "a matriarche...
Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity...
...land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant a caress on its cruel horns...
Staggering tales are told of the earning power of Soprano Alma Gluck's gramophone recordings. One of them has it that her Park Avenue home in Manhattan was purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that...
...Research Bureau of the Business School has just completed the first complete and detailed study of interstate power that has ever been made by any organization, the results of which are expected to prove quite valuable to the Electrical industry of the United States. The School has published a book on the study entitled "Interstate Transmission of Electric Light and Power Companies...