Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Baldwin, now nearly 70, and younger members of the Party say he would understand more of their troubles "if the P. M. ever had to fight for his seat, instead of just standing in Bewdley." To its homely broad-brogued farmers the Prime Minister went last week to confirm what everyone knew -that he is about to retire from office (TIME, March 22), although from a newly-bought house in London's Eaton Square he will weightily counsel the Conservative Party and through it His Majesty's Government...
...Please confirm your assertedly authoritative statement concerning the height of Goliath in feet and inches...
...that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint and the Senate would confirm justices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who understand those modern conditions-that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy . . . then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing-now." Strange Bedfellows. Boldly the President amended his Victory Dinner charge that his opponents now and last summer were one & the same, conceded that some liberals honestly differed with him about...
University officials refused either to deny or confirm the rumor of Pound's appointment...
...First was John Rutledge, whose second appointment in 1795 the Senate refused to confirm...