Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controlled scrimmages prove anything, then Harvard football coach Joe Restic has a good number of problems to solve this week as the Crimson gears for its season opener against Holy Cross on Saturday...
...borders. The interim agreement has delayed Geneva, while at the same time assuring us arms, money, a coordinated policy with Washington and quiet in Sinai. Relatively speaking, we gave up a little for a lot." Stalemate can no longer be a tenable policy, nor may it prove to be profitable, if the U.S. continues putting pressure on Israel to reach agreements while adding carrots to make concessions bearable...
...sport of kings this is not. Instead of the turf at Churchill Downs, the course is in the asphalt parking lot outside Brennan's bar at Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles. And despite his come-from-behind victory, Motown Missile has yet to prove that he deserves to be classed with the legendary Sea Biscuit, a sprinter without peer and the all-time mock thoroughbred turtle...
Every summer and fall, parts of the U.S. are stricken by outbreaks of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, caused by insect-borne viruses. But this year's outbreak may prove to be the worst in a decade. Hundreds of suspected cases of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE)* have been reported by health officials in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and New Jersey. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in two other states. In Mississippi, encephalitis has afflicted some 200 people and killed more than 30. In Illinois, the disease has struck more than...
Much of Campbell's extraordinary speech was an explanation of and response to the theories of the sociobiologists−a hundred or so geneticists, zoologists, mathematicians and anthropologists who over the past few years have been trying to prove that all human social behavior has genetic origins. Most psychologists do not believe it. How could bravery, say, be transmitted by a gene? Yet Campbell urged an open mind and a study of the recently published, monumental textbook on the subject by Zoologist Edward O. Wilson (Sociobiology: The New Synthesis; 697 pages; Harvard University Press). Said Campbell: genetic mutations modifying...