Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back to the wall most of the evening...
...since 1928 he had been shocking schizophrenics back to sanity with large injections of insulin. In 1935, Dr. Laszlo von Meduna of Budapest successfully shocked schizophrenics with metrazol, a camphor-like drug. Psychiatrists the world over hailed this revival of the old medieval technique, enthusiastically set to work to confirm the results of their European colleagues...
Professor Rand could not be reached last night to confirm the report...
...Hicks is taking the path of those men of good will who, during the World War, broke with the forces that continued to work for a truly humane future," the magazine continues. "That future works, as John Reed was able to foresee and as Lincoln Steffens was able to confirm. It is our historic privilege to continue the good fight of Reed and Steffens...
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain publicly abandoned his policy of appeasing the dictators last March many political opponents doubted that the spattered British lion could so quickly change his spots. Last week they thought they had a few facts to confirm these doubts...