Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon and asked if Professor Greg was free to help him with a research problem on which he was working. Invariably he was invited in and given tea and macaroons, and from some invisible card file in his head Professor Greg listed all of the authorities who might prove useful...
...seeing is the stage production done by the Shakepearian Festival Players in Stratford, Ontario, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie. Otherwise, the narrow confines of the stage, the incessant shouting of the actors, and the occasionally excessive posturing needed to impress the last rows of the balcony, will prove annoying. If you want to, it's also easy to laugh at the formal gestures, fantastic masks, and chanted choruses taken over from the ancient theatre...
...enclosing several efforts of mine (and these were syndicated) just to prove I am not saddle sore from being astride the fence...
...them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations just to prove they have not beaten anyone up. The mere suggestion of brutality can mean loss of pay or demotion...
...program was started by autocratic Board Chairman John N. Marshall, who died last April at 59. It is being carried on by a hard-driving management team, led by President and Board Chairman Nicholas P. Veeder, 48, that is out to prove that the little fellow can still compete successfully with the giants. By stepping up the productivity of existing facilities, the company has managed to hold down the cost of expansion to $67 a ton, v. up to $150 for other steel companies that had similar programs. While other firms laid off workers during the recession. Granite City Steel...