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Word: proving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting reading, being a simple story of one of the first world famous movie stars which is straightforward enough to avoid the possible criticism that it is the work of some other hand. The mere fact that Hart has already four books to his credit is enough to prove this fact...

Author: By B. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

...figures particularly emphasize the lack of adequate indoor facilities essential to winter athletics. The completion of the new gymnasium will remedy this condition, and should prove a stimulus to increased participation in all winter activities. Parallel to the transference of undergraduate indoor sports to the new center the graduate schools will be able to expand from their present restricted hours to a fuller utilization of the old gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOING AHEAD | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...into touch with the desires and needs of its members. With the progress of the House Plan the eating arrangements of the Union will attract a smaller patronage, and it is hoped that there will be an increased emphasis on its social activities. In this direction undergraduate management should prove a useful innovation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION MANAGEMENT | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...Umpire Van Diesne prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip some 200,000 barrels per day from California's oil flow, bring production down to around 600,000 barrels per day or less. The California method of production limitation may well prove a starting point for the discussion at Colorado Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Great emphasis has been put on the latitude which the divisional plan allows a man; a mediocre student may develop in four years to the point where he may prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECESSIONAL | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

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