Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors in the University will have an opportunity to compete for several monetary prizes as the result of a series of cash prizes amounting to $125, which are offered by "The Writer" to the authors of the best prose and verse contributions. The purpose of the contest is to prove the versatility of the readers of the magazine, a quality so much in demand in current magazines and newspapers...
...probable that practice sessions during the Reading Period will be held in the morning and afternoon, providing that such arrangements can be made for the runners. All men will be asked to signify what hours will prove most convenient to them for practicing during the Reading Period. From these reports the practice schedule will be arranged and announced later...
...text you quote. (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).* To illustrate my meaning, suppose that a man says with absolute simplicity and sincerity: "Do not smoke tobacco." In that statement there is no power; but there is power in the statement: "Go and sin no more." Yet I defy anyone to prove that one is any "simpler" or more "sincere" than the other. My meaning, as you may gather, is that statements of the kind praised by you derive power only from the person by whom or the circumstance in which they are uttered. Example-"Too proud to fight." Had that...
Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...
Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...