Word: attesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning to cultivate an appreciative taste for them...
...argument, of course, is politics. Did the movie tone down Hemingway's anti-fascist propaganda or didn't it? Quite obviously it did, but it also toned down the sex and the sweazing as all good Hayes office men will attest...
That this much talked-of Yale football renaissance is anything but a fiction is proved by the records. Four touchdowns against Brown after the three against Dartmouth and finally two to beat Princeton attest to the explosiveness of the Yale attack, which has piled up 109 points this season as contrasted with the Harlowmen's total...
...invade coastal Europe (see col. j). D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses. With all of these noises the Germans were cooking propaganda. But R.A.F. reconnaissance, R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer of heavy guns, pillboxes and concrete fortresses along the Channel coast, air and armored forces waiting at central points to rush to any invasion sector. Germany's "Commander in the West," tough, wrinkled Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt...
...Three letters of recommendation written on the business or professional stationery of the person writing the recommendation and at least one of these letters should be written by someone who has known the applicant and his family for some time so that he can attest to the applicant's family background and citizen traits...