Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asserted that President Coolidge's reluctance to a special session sprang from political reasons. Summoned, Congress might make a flood appropriation; then open up the Vare scandal and the Smith scandal, consider an anti-third term resolution, in general prove embarrassing to the President...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...
...slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original...
...First Report of the Class of 1926 of Harvard College has made its appearance and the interesting statistics prove nothing except that Harvard men are still entering the bond business. In its way this pamphlet is the mature counterpart of the Freshman Red Book, also a very contemporary publication; for the Report is the first record of the whereabouts and the occupations of those men who for one year have been out of college and who may have lost touch even in this short time with their classmates. It is, like the Red Book, a valuable reference and an opportunity...
...least its spirit, for such radical departures demand exact scrutiny before acceptance, is heartily commendable. As the geographical ratio of student enrollment has extended, so should the enrollment in Board of Overseers. It is not that a Board made up entirely of Boston or Cambridge graduates would not prove as effective as one whose membership included graduates from between the two coasts; men attaining the honor of Overseerships have Harvard's interests too close at heart to neglect her welfare or to ignore any one of her many compound parts. The reason for this move, and the objection...