Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover last week appointed Walter Hughes Newton, his political secretary, to be a U. S. District judge in Minnesota. It was a hollow honor; the Senate refuses to confirm any Hoover nominations...
...Defeated (41-to-31) a Republican motion to go into executive session to consider and confirm President Hoover's nominations...
There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm one or the other theory, Lee Edward Travis of University of Iowa's Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs...
...explained: "The bill of lading for the tea came this morning. We could not send it up to Mr. Morgan's house and we could not send it out to his Long Island Place, so we are putting it in the vault here." Some one trying to confirm the gold report learned: "It's tea all right. There are three restaurants in the building. Much food comes in here." Wall Street oldsters recalled the legend that John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, a great tea-drinker, had once sipped some particularly fine tea in a London office, had been...
Professor McCollum, 53, a big, sleepy-eyed, slow-talking savant, went to Manhattan last week to confirm an important discovery about decayed teeth. Dr. R. Gordon Agnew, pathologist, and Mrs. Agnew, nutritionist, had observed that the filthy-mouthed Chinese and Tibetans at West China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma...