Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think he's more of an intellectual, and he wanted to talk more about points of film directing, not his personal life." James W. Blake '82 said. "I think he wanted to prove himself intellectually to us and with the kind of questions he was asked, he didn't get a chance," he added...
Guarantee the Product. To prove that, say, biology graduates can distinguish fish from fowl, Mars Hill College, just outside Asheville, N.C., backs its diplomas with special tests that lead to "competency" certificates. Results: more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants, and grateful businessmen who hire the certifiably competent graduates...
...their insatiable hunger for news about the future, Americans surely prove themselves kinsmen of their remotest ancestors. Humankind, archaeology has long since made clear, began trying to penetrate tomorrow as soon as it dawned on men that there was one. The oracle and prophetic magic were invented before the wheel. Today, entrails are about the only thing not widely sifted for inklings of things to be. The soothsaying fraternity conjures all year long to supply the public addiction. The orgiastic bumper crop comes as a sort of special start-of-the-year fix. One effect of the overdose is that...
...comes down to this: I've made a habit of backing teams that raise extremely high hopes (delusions of grandeur?), but fall just short when it counts. Will being a Harvard hockey fan prove yet another frustrating exercise in masochism? I look forward to finding...
...students and administrators yesterday said the new calendar--under which second- and third-year students take exams before Christmas vacation--has led to several minor problems, but that it is too early to tell whether the short winter term will prove a valuable innovation...