Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven weeks ago General Alberto Enriquez, Provisional President and leader of the military clique that has ruled Ecuador since 1935, tackled the problem of political corruption by decreeing that all Government employes who had banked more than their official income during the past two years must prove the source of other income or be tried for appropriating Government funds...
...lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
...marry," said urbane Philosopher George Santayana, "as their fortunes prove." That women play a big part in assisting fortune was established again last month by four books on the art and science of marriage. Written for women, they cover all sides of the subject, from advice on illicit love affairs to instructions on how to can tomatoes...
President Conant mentioned building. He expressed for graduates in Cambridge, which would correspond to the upperclass Houses, might prove a great step forward in giving to graduate students the same compactness which is at present an outstanding asset of the College. He evidently envisions some such buildings in the future, maybe soon, maybe not. Anyhow, soon or late, he admits that something must be done to relieve the unsatisfactory housing conditions of the graduate schools...
Cunningham, San Romani, and Venzke were at the start ready to go when Lash announced he would also run the mile. But Lash did not prove to be the iron man for he was far behind at the end of race. The first half was slow, and Cunningham had plenty of strength to send him out ahead at the finish. The finish was fast, but the time, 4:13.8, two seconds slower than his time last year...