Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...
...when John Garner returned to Washington after six months in Texas. After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether...
...debate, which will be broadcast from 2:30 to 3 P. M. (EST) over WBZ, Harvard will attempt to prove that "the small college offers more opportunity for the full development of the individual than does the large university...
...perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...
...Regency. Trustee Shearn is in almost every physical respect the opposite of shaggy, elephantine Publisher Hearst. He promptly set out to prove himself the opposite, also, in business management. He withdrew the proposed debenture issues, got enough bank credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph...