Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blumenthal's well-documented rise from adversity is the kind of tale that businessmen like to tell their skeptical children to prove that opportunity still flourishes in America. A refugee from Hitler's Berlin, a street-smart survivor of wartime Shanghai, where his father worked at odd jobs and his mother supported the family by selling cloth to dressmakers, Blumenthal landed in California at the age of 21 in 1947 with $60 in his pocket. He worked up through two dozen menial jobs, among them serving as a gambling shill near Lake Tahoe and handling the lights...
...taking the big-spending route." The lone black in the Senate, Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, agrees. Says he: "It's not a question of the free enterprise system; there is plenty of black support for free enterprise." But, adds Brooke, the party "must prove that it is for equal justice for blacks...
...over chain fences. Police are not doing much about cleaning up the grease mess. Says Alan Cohen, president of the Reliable Grease Co.: "The police tell us they've got the Los Angeles Strangler to worry about." Besides, unless the criminals were caught in the act, they would prove difficult to prosecute. Asks one police official: "How do you identify hot grease...
...regarded as one of the world's leading logicians; of heart disease; in Princeton, N.J. Formulated in 1931, Gödel's Theorem became a cornerstone of 20th century mathematics and philosophy. By demonstrating that there is no way to set up a mathematical system that will prove all statements within that system, the theory reaffirmed the creative aspect of mathematics: it implied that a computer could never be programmed to answer all mathematical questions, that human ingenuity rather than mechanical programming would always be needed to generate new mathematical axioms...
...magnificent hallucinations have collapsed in the public mind to the scale of a worn-out adjective-one that turns the Beelzebub he implied (totalitarian bureaucracy, the Holocaust, the Gulag) into something only slightly more menacing than the Cookie Monster. "Oh, wow," protests the 17-year-old asked to prove she is old enough to drink. "That's really Kafkaesque...