Word: proved
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Pupils of the future may learn their spelling by machine, study foreign languages by oral-aural laboratory methods and attend lecture-type courses if experiments and demonstrations conducted by the Graduate School of Education and local suburban schools prove successful. The school systems of Lexington, Concord, and Newton are serving as the proving grounds for an eight-year series of innovations in new methods of elementary and secondary school teaching...
...extraordinarily lucky to have the assistance of Penn as director and of Patty Duke in the role of Helen. Since Helen cannot speak, her every movement must convey something to the audience; Helen cannot be played as a mere dumb animal, for the entire play is meant to prove that there is something inside her, waiting to be released. Under Penn's direction, Miss Duke is more than a success in this awfully taxing part; without ever uttering a word, she is the most memorable child actress to appear in years...
Criminology may soon change from a hypothetical science to a precise and mathematical one if the predictions of two University criminologists prove accurate. The two will publish today an exhaustive series of "prediction tables" which they believe can indicate delinquents and criminals who will in the future be repeat offenders, and those who will be likely to reform...
Author Humes does his work in flashbacks, not the smooth ones of a Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind...
Adams & the Dragon. Before his death, Wolfe found time to assess the Americans who fought with the British army. They were, he said, "the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace...