Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Gold, professor of Astronomy, states that the telescope, equipped with the new amplifier, should provide a test of cosmological theories such as the theory of the expanding universe and be able to confirm or deny the existence of hydrogen gas between the galaxies...
...Snyder and Sherman Adams decided, for the time, to describe the President's illness to the country as a chill. Their reasons: 1) to permit the doctors to recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached...
...Eisenhower's Washington there appears to be a lack of immediacy, a thick-skinned obliviousness to time and urgent demands for leadership. Stevenson was unsure, after a conference with the President, whether he had been invited to Paris or not. Press Secretary Hagerty had to confirm the fact. The President seemed unaware of any partisan pressure on Stevenson, or, for that matter, any real necessity for decision...
...dubious. Stewart's morass of words and symbols might have helped the Advocate more than the Lampoon. Brust's unhappy tale of the decadent South will manage to offend all of Harvard's geographical distribution who chance to read it. And Hawkins' pilgrimage through the bargain basement universe will confirm Bostonian suspicions that Harvard Yard should be a separate state...
Khruschev made a similar move last June, when he summoned the full party Central Committee to confirm the purge of Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich and V. M. Molotov from their party and government posts...