Word: proves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans, trying to reform their party under fire, had ditched the machine professionals, persuaded four outstanding amateurs in politics to be their candidates (TIME, Sept. 26). Less wisely, the Republicans launched what the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer labeled a "false" and "vicious" campaign against Dilworth, trying to prove that he was a crony of Communists. Philadelphia's two major news papers, both staunchly Republican, endorsed Dilworth...
...many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through...
Harbury, a graduate student in Applied Physics, was working in a field which requires high voltage but relatively low current. Shocks are somewhat frequent in the electronics laboratories but ordinarily low currents do not prove fatal...
Comparing the two teams' style of play doesn't prove anything in particular. Both teams play the same kind of passing game, and each team's game runs hot and cold. HARVARD YALE Batchelder (c.) g Ruckgaber Harrop rfb Van Vleck Scully lfb Aphanassiades Panteleoni rhb Sanunders Drake chh Reeve Miller lhh Dunne (c.) Goldstoein or Stolz Spivak lf Sloat Drehnnel cf Irwin Weliss II Grunner Wolf of Cordes
...will run up against problems. Unlike the Poskanzer Report, of which this latest investigation is a logical extension, the committee will be dealing mainly in abstract ideas. It is possible to determine objectively, if not statistically, whether tutorial is more effective educationally than lectures; but it may prove to be impossible to determine how much tutorial contributes to the making of the "whole man". The possibility that the committee may not succeed has been recognized: it is not committed to making a report, but is just "considering...