Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation is expected to confirm the appointment of Richard T. Gill '48, teaching fellow in Economics, to the vacated post at its next meeting...
...asked me to get off the plane first so that I could introduce him to our officials. Vice President Chen Cheng was standing beside the gangway when the general stepped down. The introduction was duly made and evidently fully understood by both. There were thousands of witnesses present to confirm that there was positively no embracing...
...children, taken before and at intervals after vaccination, were meticulously studied. (This part of the evaluation program alone involved highly technical work with 2.000,000 test tubes, took five months.) However, no sooner had Dr. Francis finished reporting his results than Dr. Salk rose last week to confirm newer findings at which he had hinted last fall (TIME, Sept. 20). If three shots are given within five weeks, as was done last year, the effectiveness of the vaccine will last for at least a polio season. But if two shots are given within a month, and there is then...
...agenda (some subjects: atomic energy control, anticolonialism, coexistence, "universal" U.N. membership). Any of these might be exploited and become explosive. But, insisted Nehru: "A controversial issue should hardly be discussed at this conference. The conference should discuss general principles." They had not gathered, as diplomats often do, to confirm a common purpose, but to find one. What they were really seeking, said Nehru candidly (and for the moment ignoring the stepchildren from Africa) was the "self-justification of Asia...
...confirm the poet's choice of April as the crudest month, 60 million Americans have by this week signed their 1954 income-tax forms. Most of them signed away more than they paid during the year for bread or meat, or gave to charity, or lost in gambling, or have any reasonable hope of saving this year...