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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corruption in their police force. Two vice-squad officers, he declared righteously, had tried to shake him down for $20,000; furthermore, one of the guys had been protecting Brenda Allen's plush call-house (TIME, July 11) and Mickey knew where he could get wire recordings to prove it. Brenda went to jail largely on the say-so of another vice-squad sergeant and a handsome policewoman named Audre Davis. Then Policewoman Audre accused her friend the vice sergeant of being a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...little has been cultivated outside the jazz patch, and the U.S. opera crop has been especially sparse. Last week a foreign-born U.S. composer proclaimed that the soil was ready to bear, if only U.S. composers would work it. He offered a piece of his own produce to prove his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home-Grown Opera | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Q.E.D. In North Little Rock, Ark., Beatrice Satterfield's husband explained to police how she happened to back his car through the side of a neighbor's house: "She wanted to prove to me that she could drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

With no compelling reason to compromise and with production outrunning demand, the steel industry might prove as agreeable as the coal industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fourth Round? | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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