Word: proved
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Pipkin said that in reaction to the proposal one Council member asked whether Faculty members might prove more useful teaching sections in large courses, while another wondered if they might be more valuable teaching small courses that students in other departments can take. Both are roles that faculty might have to give up in order to assume larger tutorial loads...
...President pledged strong U.S. support of multilateral efforts to aid undeveloped nations, offering a somewhat oversimplified analogy to prove his earnestness. He cited his origins in the agrarian U.S. South, "which for many years did not have the advantages of adequate transportation or capital or management skills or education," as a reason for his special sympathy...
Very little that is contained in Bok's report is likely to prove controversial; as Dean Rosovsky pointed out when the report was published, if a dean disagreed with anything in the rough drafts, he (all of the deans at Harvard continue to be male and white) would certainly have ironed it out before the report was released to the general public. But apparently there wasn't even that much disagreement...
...bulk of The Compass Flower seems too serene to rid itself of fatigued images ("autumn leaves," "salt of the earth") or to prove that its serenity has been earned by struggle. Many Western ears will find it hard to tell whether Merwin is being vatic or phatic...
Robinson is the first to grant that his theory is by no means "conclusive." but he challenges his colleagues to try to prove him wrong. If scholars reopen the question, he is convinced, the results will force "the rewriting of many introductions to-and ultimately, theologies of-the New Testament...