Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review of "Peggy Ann" is bound to get all tangled up in superlatives. Not since "Merry Merry" has there been such intelligent musical show--and both entertainments prove ably that dumbness and stupidity are not necessarily essential to the song-and-dance carnival. "Peggy Ann" is even satirical and slightly acid in places but don't let that bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes...
...Yale," said Bingham, commenting up on Harvard's reasons for entering into the agreement, "believed that a non-scouting pact would give the football players more initiative, and accordingly wanted to give the plan a season's trial. We did not feel that a non-scouting system would prove successful because of the suspicion that it would raise, but we were glad to give this arrangement a trial in order to cooperate with Yale...
...plottings in Mexico in 1916, or they have followed a cold trail to a mare's nest. There is a wide gulf between what is acceptable to journalism and what is recorded by history. And the identity of this episode, no matter which way it turns, cannot help but prove again that verification is the divining...
...trial began with an unsuccessful attempt by the defense to prove the incompetency of the court. It was urged that the country was not legally under martial law, it being unconstitutional to keep it in a state of siege when there was no danger of foreign invasion, and that, therefore, the trial should go to a civil court before a jury. M. Carapancea, military prosecuting attorney, pleaded the contrary case, and the court came to the conclusion that the government was within its rights in declaring martial...
...solid authority-senior honorary surgeon to St. Margaret's Hospital for Women at Manchester, and honorary surgeon and gynecologist to the Manchester French Hospital. Among his many books on his specialty is Sterility in Women. Conservative, he warned that not enough time has elapsed since his operations to prove that the results were permanent...