Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstate Newport one day last week, Jean G. Archambault, a 21-year-old farmer, seemed to prove the commissioner's point. Worried about finances and about plans to leave the land to work in a plywood plant, he walked out to the barn, tossed a rope over a rafter, adjusted a noose and hanged himself...
Before the week was over, Thorneycroft got a chance to prove that he meant what he said. An arbitration board granted a wage boost to 32,000 white-collar employees of the Ministry of Health. The government promptly announced that it would refuse to pay the increased amount. Labor reacted instantly. "This is not the way to industrial peace," thundered Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's biggest. "It is the way to industrial idiocy...
...Okapa, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas ran the risk of getting kuru themselves (if it should prove infectious); lacking surgical gloves, they did autopsies barehanded. They performed them on a dining-room table in the patrol officer's quarters, often eating a meal at one end while discussing the kuru-damaged brains lying at the other. They shipped specimens to Melbourne and to the U.S. National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. From 154 patients and their kin, they got a detailed picture of kuru's course, though no clue to its cause...
...issue are disturbed, but again not disturbing. Reinhold Niebuhr shows the concern of religion for the failure of our enlightenment to solve the eternal problems, but aside from a line on "our gadgetfilled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity" his concern is academic. Samuel Eliot Morison does prove that things have changed; "young William (Hickling Prescott) had gone through Harvard College gaily and easily, but lost an eye as a result of a brawl in college commons." Morison, however, devotes a very interesting article to the unknown historian and his claims for recognition in the same fruitless...
...effort to remain apart from his classmates comes, then, from his precarious hold on superiority. The Exonian's intellectual feelings are not unlike those of the nouveau riche. Both are seeking to prove that they have already got what only passing years can bring, while constantly afraid that their inferiors will refute the claim to superior status...