Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also want to confirm that the debate is on December 8, and would last for half an hour, and that there should be two speakers a side and no introduction whatever by anyone such as the President of Harvard...
...cabled back to The Hague, wrathful Finance Minister Oud declared: "Her Majesty's Government is more convinced than ever that the stability of the guilder is a necessity as long as world stabilization remains in the far future." In London the Oud incident was cited as tending to confirm Europe's suspicions that President Roosevelt is secretly sounding out foreign governments on the question of world monetary stabilization...
Preliminary reports from New England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...
...plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
...much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules of all four popped the same startling answer: U. S. farmers will actually have more money to spend this year than last...