Word: proving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of the question which Congress is now going to debate is whether the repeal or the retention of the embargo on arms is the more likely to lead the United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later...
Final eye movement records of the experimental group showed a fundamental change in reading habits, and also in reading attitude, it was reported last year. The students began for the first time to exercise control over the eye movements in reading. How permanent these changes will prove to be will quite certainly depend on the intentions of the learners and will, of course, vary with the individuals, it was said...
...previous knowledge of U. S. Communist goings-on the evidence added nothing. But it did prove one thing: that Earl Browder's party is still hog-tied to the dictates, the machinations of Moscow, wherever they may lead...
...Examples: "Soviet Russia is the chief obstacle to Nazi ambition." A German-Russian alliance "will prove difficult of achievement until after the death of Stalin...
...revered Lord Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's internal structure, stuck to his post. He was on the verge of splitting the atom. When a committee of scientists sought his help on a method for submarine detection, he put them off by saying that if he could prove atomic disintegration it would be more important than the war itself. As it turned...