Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unsatisfied, Travis forces the question and challenges Jesuit to a secret match outside of official league play. When Verrett and Grant ask the players' families about the possibility of going through with the secret game, it becomes clear that neither side can resist the chance to prove themselves the better team. The game takes place, therefore, because the chance for a truly equal competition overrides the teams' fears and mistrust of one another...
...effort to prove that they are the nation's true No. 1 team, the Crimson soundly stomped the Bulldogs last night by never dropping a game. All Harvard players easily won their matches by a score of 3-0 and didn't allow the Bulldogs to gain an inch...
...colleges and universities assumed women couldn't be philosophers, astrophysicists or orchestra conductors, the Bunting would assume otherwise--and fund female scholars' research to prove...
...informed decision on how to spend the money. The potential benefits of the windfall are not lost on us; we have a vested interest in seeing the money--our money--spent well. Council members, by assuming--and actually saying--that students are too dumb to weigh the proposals, only prove how disconnected they are with their constituents...
...writer who has worked for the New Yorker and the New Republic. Hitchens told congressional investigators that Blumenthal, who left journalism two years ago for the White House, had called Monica Lewinsky a "stalker" at a social lunch last March. It could be a big deal if it helps prove Blumenthal lied under oath when he told impeachment investigators he didn't know the source of alleged White House leaks that painted Monica as a "stalker," and that he never talked about her private life. Or it may not contradict his testimony at all. Like his boss, Blumenthal parsed...