Word: proven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show opened, the Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...
...debates on the Balkans have become as formalized as a ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey...
...Committee plans to experiment with different systems in each house, however. A report will be made at the end of the year on which methods have proven the most successful...
...plight of the freshman coach in any sport is especially pathetic. This is proven by mere analogy to a varsity coach who develops a player for three years and then loses him to graduation when he is at peak performance. The freshman coach experiences a similar loss at the end of one season...