Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
Neither the scholarship nor the merger issue seem to require star chamber methods. The Council president suggested that open publicity on the foreign student scholarships might prove embarrassing to scholarship holders. This is highly dubious since the consideration was of the lack of funds and not of the individuals. Had the matter been made public, it is conceivable that students might have had a suggestion for augmenting the fund...
...varsity football team provided local observers with what may well prove the biggest surprise of the year when it held a heavily favored Princeton eleven to a hard fought 28-20 victory on Saturday...
...that prematures just die and that's all." Dr. Ylppo was determined to change this. As early as 1913 came a study of jaundice from blood destruction, which sometimes afflicts the newborn. By 1917 Ylppo had passed a tube into his own stomach and pumped oxygen in to prove that the life-essential gas could be given by this route (he was the first to apply this technique to "preemies"). Then came detailed studies of the physiology of preemies (showing just what development handicaps they suffered), and other vital topics, such as the effects of a mother...
...degree from Bologna, served as a lieutenant in the World War I Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast arched structures 130 ft. wide and 330 ft. long, with no interior columns...