Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to reinstill faith in American military might, he listed achievements which prove beyond doubt that today's army is stronger than that which fought in World War II. Unforunately the pretext for Thursday's speech was evidence that Russian armed forces are not only more powerful than ever before but, in rocketry and perhaps other fields, more advanced than...
...Crimson's first four games are the really crucial ones on the schedule, for if they win these, the road is open to the NCAA playoffs later in the year. B.C. and B.U. have always proved difficult teams even when the Crimson had the superior team and this year should prove no exception. Barring injuries and other mishaps, however, the varsity should win these first two games...
Whipple maintained, moreover, that Russia's inability to prove to the world that it had hit the moon is "a good argument against their trying to do it." He predicted that within a "very few years--five, at the most" man would be able to get a rocket to hit the moon or to go into an orbit around...
PENN-TEXAS REBELS, trying to oust Leopold Silberstein as president, will go to court to open up holding company's books. Rebels expect to prove heavy losses to be a result of Silberstein's attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co., and that company does not have enough cash to meet its bills. Meanwhile, Penn-Texas reported third-quarter earnings of only 1? a share...
...that T.T.'s bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved, at the price of most...