Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having friends over now means having to run up and down as many as eight flights of stairs to let each guest in. This process can prove to be quite a workout if, let's say, 16 friends show up at different times in one night. Moreover, as the blustery days of winter approach, the possibility of waiting outside in the courtyard to be let into a building results in an unnecessary exposure to the elements...
...recently when the World's Strongest Man competition came on television. For those who have never seen this world-class event, hulking men with names like Ab Sanders and Magnus Ver Magnusson prove their might by pulling several-ton tractors across snowy fields, hurling boulders and performing other Herculean feats. As I sat on my uncomfortable bar stool, I thought about all the scintillating drama I was missing by not having cable television in my dorm room...
That would prove to be the zenith of the weekend, however, as Harvard could neither manage the game-winner in over-time, nor could it find a "W" against Yale the following night...
There is no doubt that the women have a wealth of talented backstroke and freestyle specialists, but the butterfly and breastroke positions are more shaky. Although Walsh has a good number of new swimmers making waves at the IAB, they have yet to prove themselves in college competition...
...course, the FBI still don't know what caused the crash beyond an unspecified mechanical failure. But the reconstruction sought to nix niggling fears of a friendly fire incident, and to prove that what dissenting eyewitnesses had seen was not a missile going up, but Flight 800 coming down. At least one skeptic was convinced: Kallstrom said Pierre Salinger had called to concur with his findings...