Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't play well, we're a better team than this," Munro said. "Next week we should prove ourselves...
Will Yale be just another Ivy League patsy for the Crimson thinclads to stamped over en route to an undefeated dual meet season? The Elis hit Harvard's home cinders today in what should prove to be Harvard's second straight Ivy win in the young season...
...pressure for reform is thus considerable -but, as in the past, it may not prove strong enough. As far back as 1907, Theodore Roosevelt suggested tax-supported campaigns; though the idea got nowhere in the U.S., roughly half of the Western industrial democracies subsequently adopted some form of public financing. For 46 years, campaign financing in the U.S. was governed by the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, but not a single member of Congress was ever punished for transgressing it. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to remedy the old law's defects by insisting on more...
Hays, Nixon and other opponents of reform note that some of the proposals now being weighed will prove to be unwieldy or unworkable. Undoubtedly. But that is no reason for not adopting, and soon, the following...
Like the Wagnerian theater in Bayreuth that Mad King Ludwig paid for, Mrs. Harkness's monument may prove to be a lasting and useful home for the lively arts. Some of her talented dancers will surely be exposed some day to more challenging choreography. Mean while, one can only sorrow that so much love, money and care was expended to such little result. such little result...