Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plan and has been lambasting it vigorously ever since. At the National Press Club in Washington, bar gossips predicted that Out Waltman, who will get $20,000 a year as compared with In Michelson's $25,000, would prove a well qualified mudslinger...
...chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that in two years in the Army his dice had netted him $2,000. Vina did not testify about her previous experience. Solomonwise, the board last week allowed Eugene's claim, disallowed Vina's. Said Eugene: "Well, what can you think of it?" Said Vina...
...belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...contract, which presupposed a 51 percent A. F. of L. majority, in the dining halls and kitchens, was signed by the University without any attempt being made to prove the existence of this majority. The majority was not certified, as is usually the case, by the State Labor Relations Commission, nor was any general vote held among the employees...
John Marshall College handed Harvard its most brilliant tongue-lashing, through one Jim Tumulty who set up the thesis that the Harvard boys couldn't pass the entrance requirements to Laurel Hill (local haven for misfit minds) and proceeded to prove it to an appreciative audience...