Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes necessary for me to prove it I can do so beyond any doubt. Of course, many merchants, manufacturers, bankers and other businessmen bought tickets in blocks of fives (the series) to see the plays I produced in Milwaukee. But so did many doctors, lawyers, bookkeepers and stenographers. But neither the series...
...Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise...
...Peace at any price" seems to be the theme of the numerous student pacifist organizations meeting over Armistice weekend to prove the folly and uselessness...
...patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter who has had the necessity to walk along these through fares late at night, realizes the benefits of this police protection." To prove that he knows of what he is talking, Mickie has decorated the folder with his family picture--one wife, four daughters, five sons...
...highest praise for Dick Harlow and the spirit of the players he works with. With this spirit, it is not pure wishful thinking to expect that the rest of the season will show a decided improvement. Last year the Princeton game was the turning-point, and it may well prove to be so again this year. The team probably senses that this is the feeling of the great mass of undergraduates, but more than that is needed. If actions ever speak louder than words or even good wishes, they will do so at the send-off planned for the team...