Word: proven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, coach John Kelley is admittedly in the dark as to the propects of his team. "We received a severe blow this week when we lost Jack Cusick, our leading scorer last winter, for at least ten days." With Cusick not dressing for the game, B.C. is without a proven scoring punch, but this may be partially compensated for on defense where captain Joe Jangro, one of the top defensemen in the East, and sophomore standout Tom Martin give Kelley a very rough combination in front of sophomore goalie Jim Logue...
...great historical importance, for it fixed the French light opera style for a hundred years. It was the chief stylistic source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than a textbook "influence," that it is an eminently viable stage work today and does not merit the obscurity into which it has fallen, especially when the almost ubiquitous Barber of Seville is not a whit better...
...something of a tradition that the cross-country team should go into its triangular meet with Princeton and Yale a proven underdog, and then emerge victorious. This year's forecast, at least, is no exception, since the Bulldogs have sustained the squad depth that has made them an annual threat to the Crimson's hopes for an undefeated season...
Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...
...screening volunteers for the army, boasted that his methods were used in the induction of 80,000 German soldiers. Said a brigadier general: "Schneider's work remains the basic pattern for the techniques of induction officers. As a creative worker in the field of military psychology, he has proven high capacity...