Word: proving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets out to educate the incurable Elephant Man, to make him an example of Victorian refinement, to prove that kindness and culture can bring out the beauty...
...game had ended long before Crimson manager Nonny Brown sounded the final horn. The Williams squad knew very early in the contest that its record would fall to 3-5-1. The Crimson upped its own season mark to 7-3, although a 1-2 Ivy League record could prove fatal to the squad's title hopes...
...Crimson will regroup this week, safe in the notion that the game did not prove as much of a runaway as it might have, given the injuries and the bad breaks. As for the Dartmouth partisans, who filed out of Memorial Field taunting, they will wake up this morning with a Hanover hangover, sate in the misguided notion that the victory vindicates the fact that they go (or went) to Dartmouth...
...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...
...regatta is advertised as casual, fun and low-key, but this year may prove otherwise for several reasons. Three thousand competitors and 720 boats will pass under the bridges, but the climax of the regatta will be late in the afternoon, when the West German Olympic Men's Eight challenges our own National Team crew in a match that never took place in Moscow this summer. The United States Olympic Committee has supplied transportation and living expenses for the Olympians, and Charlie Altecruze '80, who was spending the year studying in Germany, flew in for the weekend...