Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...success, but rather a desperate gambler's throw, a final attempt to bring victory to the Teuton arms, an opportunity for the people of Berlin to hang out their flags and indulge in one of those celebrations which have become increasingly infrequent in the past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed Allied War Committee, which will have supreme authority on all the fronts, succeeds in combining the disconnected activities of the many allied armies into one efficient and effective plan of action; if the particular aims of each nation are subordinated...
...three campaign days remaining, the true significance of the Liberty Loan must be quickly realized. Assailed on every side by the various devices of the world's greatest advertising campaign, and despite the counsel of the country's leading men, there are many who hang back. Such action will prove disastrous...
...University R. O. T. C. harriers have not had very much practice so far this year, but the team is nevertheless strong, and will probably prove a vigorous contender for the first team prize...
...team, our University team, and deep down, 'way underneath, one could see the fundamental resemblance between it and its predecessors. It needs not Brickleys and Mahans to prove it. The mere fact that it went on the field and won was enough. Though the sheer physical ability of other years was lacking, the spirit was there. Long before the season is over, every graduate and undergraduate will have realized...
Thus at the entrance of the United States into the world war much was heard about the failure of American college because of turning out men who would be of little avail in such a struggle. The continuance of the war would only prove how useless colleges were as institutions in time of national peril. It is all very well for us to loll around reading our classics or admiring our art, but when men are out killing one another that institution which is the upholder of the Sabine Farm and its accoutrements is decidedly a back number...