Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressions, altered details that displeased him, strengthened effects that he liked. Curator of prints, Carl O. Schneiwind, who assembled the show and is revising the Guérin catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either in stuffy Parisian houses or South Sea huts, walls to work upon...
French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris's Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long. Foucault's idea was to prove the rotation of Earth on its axis. A pendulum which is swinging freely in space keeps to the same line, whereas compass directions beneath the pendulum are constantly changing as the earth rotates. This apparent shift was duly performed by the pendulum of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Such demonstrations always make a great impression on students of elementary physics...
...from $40 to $45. Unmentioned in the tourist plans was the fact that all U. S., French, British passports are stamped NOT VALID FOR SPAIN, also the unlikelihood that none-too-friendly France would permit mere tourists to cross her borders to Rightist Spain. But where France might prove stubborn on this score, friendly pro-Fascist Portugal might well prove amenable...
...years at College. Tom Bolles thinks the six-foot-four, 194-pound pacer is one of the finest oarsmen in the country, probably the best that Harvard has ever had. In every race this year it was Chace who kept the bladesmen at the cool 32 beat which may prove a dilemma to Captain Johson's confident Blue outfit...
...small herd of psychologists, mathematicians and graduate students at North Carolina's Duke University, headed by Dr., Joseph Banks Rhine, believe they have proved the existence of Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), which means telepathy and clairvoyance, by a long series of card-matching experiments. A great number of psychologists and mathematicians elsewhere do not consider that the Duke experiments prove ESP at all.So the dead cats hurled into the Duke camp have been many and pungent...