Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...center John Page will replace John Richardson, benched by injuries. Page is an aggressive, fighting player, who does best backing up the line. Sparkplug of last year's Milton team, he may prove a partial solution to Stahley's quest for a team leader, although he is handicapped by his lightness. Anyway, he should give Richardson a good run for his money when he returns...
...this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control over Foreign Policy, Senator Pittman even went beyond the Constitution. For, under the Constitution the President cannot be ordered by Congress to proclaim a state of war. Constitutionalists held that this provision of the bill would subordinate the White House to Congress...
...know what I would say," she quietly replied, "I only hope it would be something which would prove to the English people how much I love them...
...lothing was rationed as well as food. Men were allowed two suits, four shirts and six pairs of socks, and to get new ones they had to prove that the old ones were worn...
...description of the statue would prove nothing. Its force of creative distortion would be frozen by the ice of descriptive wording. And in order to arrive at a fair evaluation of the ADAM'S worth, it would be necessary to devote many finely printed pages to a discussion of the statue, a discussion which would include Epstein's purpose, the complexity of various contemporary movements in sculpture, and a searching investigation of many other works of art which have been similarly received when first exhibited. Still the concentrated strength embodied in ADAM is penetrating enough to cause even the most...