Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First he sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific from Peru to French Polynesia aboard Kon-Tiki, a primitive raft made of balsa logs. Now Author-Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, 54, plans to navigate the Atlantic in a 45-ft. by 15-ft. craft made of papyrus, to prove his theory that people from ancient Mediterranean civilizations could have made the journey. Heyerdahl and a crew of six will shove off from Safi, Morocco, next month, charting a course through the Canary Islands to Central America, where traces of what seems to be primitive Old World cultures have been found. Until...
...also a positive achievement to the extent that two of the three functions of this body are of explicitly advisory nature. The information channels of the University should be as representative as possible. The ten Faculty members and five students who will make up this special committee may well prove helpful in its role as an investigating committee to "study the causes of the present crisis" and in "recommending changes in the governance of the University...
...governing bodies of Harvard University meets today. As far back as 1921 the Overseers sought student opinion on the then controversial issue of the tutorial system. Today's meeting provides this body with an excellent opportunity to continue this tradition. At the same time, the Overseers could prove to students and faculty that at least one of the governing bodies in the Harvard community is interested in a dialogue--and students...
...newsmagazines. Since they compete head to head, the problem is figuring out a way to watch them both. One solution is to watch First Tuesday the first Tuesday of the month and 60 Minutes the third, when its rival does not appear. However they're watched, the shows prove that network news, thinly sliced, can be as entertaining-and sometimes as superficial-as most variety shows...
Eric talked to the cop, who checked the registration of our cars. After a while he left. No one in the group had paid much attention to him. Eric said, "He just wanted us to prove that we're doing what we're doing...