Word: unproven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of White in backing up the line against the Wildcats stamped him as one of the leading contenders for the fullback job. His running ability is as yet an unproven quantity but it seems as though he is going to be given every opportunity to make good in the Team A backfield...
...categorical impossibility of a struggle between religion in its broadest sense and science in its broadest scene. Unless Mr. Aswell can prove there is such a struggle, and he certainly has not done so in this particular article, he has based his ideas on the false foundations of an unproven, though still contended, generality...
...conduct, which it is the peculiar attribute of the liberal college to develop. To follow the eloquent flight of the News editorial, "College book learning is primarily instruction in where to get and how to appreciate not only pure in formation, but all the finest ideas, proven or unproven, all the loftiest conceptions, all the most poetic dreams that the world has created and saved...
...formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed by no experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works of the Phlogistonists of the sixteenth century, but based even more upon unproven postulates. Mr. Page's utter disregard for the scientific distinction between hypothesis, theory, and law, and his garbled manner of exposition detract from the philosophical as well as from the scientific value of his work...