Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Probably a dollar has never been as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund," said Harold Braddock, director for the Library War Council. "Not only will each dollar do its full share toward the construction of the library and branch buildings, the installation of tables and chairs in the reading rooms, and the provision of expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in circulation until worn out, and then will help furnish a new one to replace the old one. Every dollar in the fund will prove itself 100 per cent. efficient...
...devotion to the nation's needs which inspires and guides the University today. What price the country must pay in the months to come for the ideals now at stake no one can foresee; but that 1912 will bear hear full share of the cost, whatever it may prove to be, no one for one moment can question. May her record be a brilliant and proud one when next her members gather for a class reunion. The class is indebted to a committee of classmates in New York City, who had largely completed plans for a celebration this spring when...
...also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent. The fundamental purpose of this conference is to answer the recent attacks on classical studies...
...perusal of medical text-books. Such books should be on the Index Expurgatorum, as far as the general public and dramatists are concerned. Mr. Walter Jones as G. P. Hampton and Mr. Bert Lytell as his nephew, the doctor and hero, have evidently seen the stage before, and they prove it in "Mary's Ankle." Indeed, the caste is decidedly good, but one cannot help feeling that it is a fearful waste of time for so many doctors of that better class to keep showing "Mary's Ankle...
Unless, as we cannot believe, it prove that conscientious objectors and the like object, not to war, which is a debatable justice, but to death, which is an impartial doom, visiting the artisan no less than the soldier, and ineluctable by the cowardly as by the brave...