Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physically possible, with the exception of overcrowding in some of the House libraries, chief objections raised by the House masters, unanimously opposed to the plan, were that associate members would disrupt the normal community spirit of the House the report said. Fear was expressed that such an innovation might prove an entering wedge in making the Houses into dormitories...
Spinachseed says he is sorry, but "these things must be expected by scientists. Their theories must someday prove insufficient; and others, in the light of new discoveries, will take their place. Time marches on, hand in hand with knowledge...
...written copy. We raise vegetables and live stock as well as children; can cook, keep house and nurse the sick. Perhaps a few professors of now-scientific subjects are inept, but as for scientists, they look like hardware dealers, work like millwrights and catch on like columnists. We can prove this by cases at Berkeley and Stanford as well as here and back East. We are, like all strongly sexed males, vulnerable to feminine loveliness. Scientists are remarried promptly by smart women who recognize good catches...
Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks...
...Paramount). Underworld melodrama, based on a story by Norman Krasna, directed by Fritz Lang, scored by Kurt Weill, acted by Sylvia Sidney and George Raft which, setting out to prove that Crime Does Not Pay, proves instead that the brightest names in Hollywood sometimes make its dullest pictures...