Word: proves
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations of Robert, the cat, will go on. The elephant will disregard the trees that...
Average Americans! Roosevelt hits it, and yet he doesn't hit it, in his title. Who are the average Americans? Are they the men of the A. E. F., always ready to work twenty-five hours a day; to give their lives up to prove their Americanism; with a sense of team play, a sense of help the other fellow and get there, never surpassed; with a resourcefulness that overcame the impossible and a confidence that was streaked with fanaticism? Is it these men, the men of the A. E. F., or is it their returned shades, clamoring for less...
...European collections will make the book particularly valuable for foreign museums, and furnish a convenient summary of the chief works of interest of the period. Due to the inclusion also of the results of scholarly research on the subject of pigments and similar details of technique, the book will prove its worth to the practising artist...
...according to word received from the management last night. The preliminary bouts of the tournament will be held Monday afternoon in the wrestling room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. A large number of men have signified their intention of entering the tournament, and it is expected that this innovation will prove very popular...
...between elections points to the solution of one of the most difficult problems in the government of a democratic state. The proposal to take a vote on the thirteenth of next January in the colleges of America on four phases of the question of ratification of the treaty may prove a landmark in the history of the organization of opinion...