Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, delighted to put the blame squarely on Athens, leaked a blizzard of inspired "inside information" to prove that all the NATO powers, and Spaak himself, were fed up with the Greeks...
...from another chemical angle. In 1954 Sanger announced that after ten years of work, he and a small group of colleagues had determined the structure of the insulin molecule. Their achievement did not result in cheaper or better insulin for the world's diabetics, but it may ultimately prove more important. For insulin is a protein, and the active parts of all living organisms are made largely of proteins...
...their language, they cheerfully informed me that they no longer ate people, but that their fathers had. Here and there around the village, I would spot a bone that looked suspiciosly human. But they were so damned friendly." First offer of friendship: a meal of pre-chewed (to prove it unpoisoned) monkey meat...
...There was a letter on his desk, and he read it through at least twice before speaking to them. Finally he explained that he had received a letter from Greg's lawyer, the executor of his estate. During the past ten years Greg had worked steadily at what might prove to be the outstanding work of his career. It was substantially finished, but would require some editing, and, of course, it would have to be seen through to publication. The next point was a little more complicated, and he began this more slowly. As they might have expected, Greg...
Offensively, then, the varsity figures to do all right. But first it will have to get the ball away from Princeton. And this will likely prove a very difficult job.Varsity tackles BOB SHAUNESSY and PETE BRIGGS...