Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happily enough, the co-feature, "Mannequin," is also good. Joan Crawford, cast to type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity...
Discussing that part of the new Party's program that deals with the destiny of the Americas, Professor Holcombe felt that their proposed foreign policy would prove to be one of isolation. "He's going back to the Monroe Doctrine as an alternative to collective security," he said...
Although superior in rowing technique than the 1937 crew at this time, Bolles still looks forward to sharpening up the catch and smoothing out an imperceptible check. Probably the race today will prove a splendid opportunity for ironing out the rough spots...
Professor Franz Weidenreich, noted physical anthropologist at Heidelberg and Frankfort Universities, will lecture on "Does Peking Man prove human evolution?," at the Institute of Geographical Exploration today at 5:30 o'clock...
Bradley & Murphy, Robert Young points to Cleveland rumors that they are minions of J. P. Morgan & Co. because Morgan's lent them sufficient money last summer to buy Cleveland's Higbee department store. To prove that "Guaranty Trust Co. has utilized, subverted and abused its fiduciary position as trustee," he claims C. & O.'s present management has shown its worth by its success, that his simplification plans would benefit Alleghany bondholders, that Guaranty's claim to impartiality was exploded when it rejected as possible "impartial" directors for Chesapeake such bigwigs proposed by Young as Pan American...