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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard's"--so, wrote the CRIMSON last year, commenting on the University's pamphlet concerning geographical enrollment. Each succeeding Freshman class will go to prove this statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LARGER INTEREST | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...will agree that the abolition of public nuisances are the desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AMERICAN ENIGMA | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

...first such enterprise and pave the way for imitation. The announcement of the name of the recipient of the scholarship to all intents and purposes consummates the project. The terms are liberal. The recipient chooses his own institution--can change within a time of several months if it prove unsatisfactory. The scholarship is for a year. The whole move is thoroughly commendable and to it must accrue benefits as to a part of the movement for international comity and a comradeship of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNDERGRADUATE'S TURN | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

...England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLEASURES AND PALACES | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

...Loved the Ladies is the most horribly acted play in Manhattan. The plot: A maiden, born sub rosa, inherits the millions of her father. Fortunately for her social pretensions, he also leaves letters to prove he was the intermittent paramour of nearly every respected matron in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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