Word: proved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...judgments on occasion prove as hasty as his stopovers. In 1955's Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also...
...have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
Said Physicist Tuve (rhymes with prove), concerned over the possibility of well-meaning overemphasis of science: "I believe that science must firmly be included among the liberalizing humanities in any honest assessment of modern thought." He proposed that teachers get pay raises for the quality of their teaching, "not only for longevity and for more degrees from schools of education...
...Civil Aeronautics Board finally gave the U.S. airline industry an E.T.A. last week for its general passenger fare investigation. Estimated Time of Arrival: February 1959, nearly six years after the study was proposed. Grimly, alphabetically, twelve lines have uttered millions of words trying to prove that they need a 20% boost in air fares, especially now that they must raise $2 billion for new jet fleets. Before this simple message even reaches CAB's examiner next summer, it will total some 20,000 pages, not counting exhibits. Then it will take another six paper-strangled months before a decision...
...living costs (50? for round steak, 24? for a shot of fine Irish whisky), and the idea that the U.S. manufacturer in Ireland will be able to sell his goods tariff-free to the future European free-trade area, which Ireland intends to join. The free-trade area should prove particularly attractive to businessmen who set up plants in the 200-acre customs-free zone around Shannon Airport in County Clare...