Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogged one-fourth who wanted escape from the programed life, however expensive it might prove to be, stepped up their campaigning, got valuable assistance from their official landlords. When a federal law was passed allowing residents of the atomic cities of Richland and Oak Ridge, Tenn. to buy property, G.E. happily put 4,800 homes on the market, sold all but 600, followed up by selling commercial property also. After another petition for incorporation was circulated, Richlanders poured out last July to approve...
...exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration and even prove fatal), tourists' diarrhea has had little scientific study seeking its causes and cures...
...Shakespeare, to do wonders with an intonation, know also how to join hands. Desmond Heeley, with his charming costumes and simple set resembling an old, delicately drawn tailpiece or design, knows how to achieve a background. There is for once in the theater the sense of letting something deathless prove its mettle and not of belaboring something lifeless to move its limbs...
Admittedly, the establishment of a few permanent positions in History and Lit will not prove a cure-all for the field's difficulties. But any system that will enable some men on a high faculty level to devote most of their time to History and Lit would surely be a step in the right direction...
...Henry Dionisio should give the Crimson trouble in the middle distance races, McCurdy predicted, and Donald Silpe may prove too strong for Sandy Dodge in the dash. Terrier miler Bob Wells and high jumper Neil Morgan will allow the favored Crimson trackmen little margin for error, and Arthur Reed could give Landau a tough time in the hurdle event...