Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force Lieutenant Sharon Frontiero, 26, who was a nurse at Maxwell Air Base in Montgomery, Ala., demanded a housing 'allowance for herself and her husband, Joseph, a student at nearby Huntingdon College. Against regulations, said the Air Force-a husband cannot be a dependent unless his wife can prove that she pays more than half of his support (Frontiero was living mostly on veterans' benefits). Last week, though Mrs. Frontiero has by now returned to civilian life, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in her favor...
Last fall Sophomore Jay Bennett, a fullback on Harvard's football team, read that a professional player was "so mean that he ate glass." After a few drinks at a party, Bennett set out to prove that eating glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...
Another new Vermont law requires developers to meet a long list of environmental requirements before they can turn their first shovelful of dirt. For example, a subdivider who wants to build on a floodplain must now prove that his development will not imperil the health, safety and welfare of the public during a flood...
...deserve degrees might suggest that the quality of the Department's teaching has fallen off badly. But the falling-off was probably in the Department's fairness, perhaps because the junior faculty on the examining board carried to an extreme the natural desire of untenured academics to prove their scholarly machismo. The board should not have abruptly changed the standards its grading and previous general examinations had led its students to expect. The full Department, or if necessary Dean Whitlock, should overrule the board. Performance over four years should outweigh the performance of an afternoon...
Burns said that the City accepts a wide variety of evidence, in addition to street listings, as proof of physical presence in Cambridge. Rent receipts, telephone bills and listings in the Harvard student directory are sufficient to prove physical presence, he said...