Word: proving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocky thick-lipped president, Archibald Robertson Graustein, onetime infant prodigy, brilliant Harvard scholar (TIME, April 29). Newsprint at $60 the ton was impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...
...meet is successful this year it is planned to make the event an annual affair. It will be the only athletic contest of any kind in which Boston fans can see their favorites in action all at the same time, and should prove a great drawing card for Boston's sporting population...
Iowa looked a shade better than Michigan but could not prove it. Neither scored...
...Testament of Beauty, which evidently required years in gestation, which is already being compared in England with Chaucer, Keats and Milton, should compensate for Laureate Bridges' silence. Indeed, it may prove to be the last utterance of the last of the Laureates, for the present Government talks of abolishing the post should it fall vacant in its tenure of office...
...concert in Symphony Hall is the result of a new policy by which the Glee Club is advancing from the field of men's voice music into the more extensive, interesting, and natural, library for mixed voices. It is believed that this is progress musically, and that it will prove more varied and interesting to the audiences. The Glee Club by no means intends to give up men's voice music, but has prepared a complete program of it for local concerts. The concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 12th in Symphony Hall...