Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "It took an Englishman a long time to fight for a liberty, but once he had it nobody could take it away, but that we in America fought fast for liberty and could be deprived of it in an hour." The events of the past four years have proven Mr. Crossman all too wise, and have proved that Hellman's anger is all too well-founded...
...failed Part 1 of the National Board after five tries as representative of most black students at the school, so too it is unfair for him now to take the five who failed last year as representative of the approximately 30 minority students in the class. It has been proven in several cases that standardized tests like the National Board Exam are biased against minority students. Even considering the higher proportion of blacks and whites who failed the exam last year, the results say more about the nature of a test taken in the middle of a medical school career...
Higginson's admonition has proven to be a winning recipe, as Harvard's varsity has walked away with the laurels seven of the last eight years and the lightweights have won the overall title, or the Jope Cup, for the last eight years...
Most likely, it springs from a deep-seated suspicion of Latin Americans, whose clever perfidy was proven for all time by General Santa Anna's massacre of 179 Texans at the Alamo, which, as you may recall, has not been forgotten. Of course, more than historical antagonisms shape the views of Texans. Many of them would probably identify with the response one cynic gave to President McKinley's professions of affection for "our little brown-skinned brothers" in the Phillipines: "They may be related to President McKinley, but they're not related to me." Chicanos, who make up about...
...have skippered Mariner in the 1974 America's Cup trials. "I'd rather sink than lose" is his shipboard motto, and crews can attest that "Terrible Ted" means it. But Turner does not look for easy victories. He bought American Eagle, a proven failure in two America's Cup trials, refitted her and skippered her to a series of impressive victories in the rugged Southern Ocean Racing Conference...