Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insurance Policy. "May I take this liberty of suggesting that every American who invests in countries like mine is, whether he knows it or not, taking out an insurance policy for his children's benefit? Intercontinental trade and economic cooperation may after all prove to be the best safeguard against the intercontinental missile...
...girls to be treated as equals with Harvard men and at the same time demand that all joint organizations have at least one Radcliffe officer. This is absurd. If the girls are our equals, let them compete as such. But past experience has shown that one Radcliffe girl can prove the downfall of innumerable members of Harvard College. They don't need any official help...
...winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...
...launch Sputnik, they had an intercontinental missile, or at least were ahead in the development of one. That presumption was far from an established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still hangs heavy over the Soviet...
...Gawky Girl. The Royal Navy does not take kindly to pampered princelings. Tough instructors at Dartmouth went out of their way to prove the validity of Captain Bligh's legendary dictum that "a midshipman is the lowest form of life in the British Navy." But Phil the Greek (as he was sometimes called) weathered every storm. In two terms he received only one day's punishment, and might well have avoided a second rude admonition had it not been for a young lady who came to call...