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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne: "I argued as hard as I could that she shouldn't lick me because I'd already got my beating. I offered to pull down my pants to prove it, and she let me off. It was my first double jeopardy case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FROM COTTON FARM TO BAR PRESIDENCY | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Cortlandt, a municipal course, is badly run down, with dirt at the tees and a poor green. Columbia's familiarity with the links may prove to be the decisive factor in the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Will Face Lions, Quakers Today | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

With only three losses this season, all of them by one point, the Crimson will be ready to prove that it should have a spotless record. If yesterday's match with previously unbeaten Brown is any indication of varsity strength, the Princeton contest will be very close...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Varsity Netmen To Play Tigers Here Tomorrow | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

Smith: The facts seem to prove that the consumer is good and tired of the U.S. car, at least-and that's far more important than cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TALK ABOUT THE RECESSION | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Were the University to impose a ban on all student cars, such a ruling would no doubt prove unenforceable. The parking regulations now employed are nearly as unfortunate and inconvenient for students as a total ban, and they fail to solve the problem of Harvard's relations with the residents of Cambridge. Until the city sees fit to change its own parking laws, there is no reason for the University to impose stricter ones. To enforce Cambridge's rules--and only Cambridge's rules--would satisfy both the city and the student driver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politicketing | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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