Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open charge by two undergraduates that last spring $2700 was raised under the false pretense of sending an ambulance to the territory of the Spanish Government. Obtaining money under false pretenses is a criminal act punishable by imprisonment, and the authors of such a written accusation must prove their case or be prepared to defend themselves against a suit for criminal libel...
...original Philip Nathaniel Jackson Cup and will receive a photograph of the cup. Some of the Houses present cups to the winners of the House tournament. This year the eight House winners will enter an Inter-House Championship tournament. This arrangement of fall House tennis competition should prove very effective. Not only will it organize well the fall competition, but it will enable the tennis managers to observe the players from the point of view of selecting a squad for the spring inter-House league...
Last week Fortism had its renaissance in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a slim journal called The Fortean Society Magazine, edited by Tiffany Thayer. The lead article, written by Publisher Thayer, purported to prove that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were "murdered"-i. e., went astray in the Pacific because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon...
...recommendation last spring of a Student Council committee, upper class intramural programs have been handed back to a centralized H.A.A. committee. Funds are set aside to provide compensation for managers in each House who are expected to prove more efficient than the unpaid students of the system in effect through last year...
...hour later two janitors steed guard at the main gate, barring reporters from the inner courtyard. Thus did the tall, bespectacled German signify his intention of avoiding what might prove embarrassing interviews...