Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anthropologists had no facts to confirm or deny this latest Chinese claim. As far as they know, the Peking man's only relics were last seen in December 1941, when they were sent under U.S. Marine guard from Peking to the coast for wartime safekeeping in the U.S. But Pearl Harbor intervened, and the Marines spent the war in Japanese P.W. camps. The Peking man vanished. Some U.S. anthropologists believe that the precious bones lie unrecognized somewhere in North China. Or, by Chinese peasant custom, they may even have been ground up as "Dragon's Teeth" medicine...
...confirm the Premier's words, hundreds of university students gathered spontaneously outside the U.S. embassy in Rome to cheer. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, who had gone to the island of Sardinia, got word of the student demonstration and sent a message of thanks, ending with the words: "Long Live Italy...
...argument against the transfer of Congressional responsibility from the Republicans. He predicted that such a result would thrust partisan obstacles in his path. The Senate Democratic Policy Committee this week made the following policy decisions by way of proving it: 1) Not to permit the special Senate session to confirm the President's pending appointments, two to the Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats...
...Radcliffe Administration, which does not normally give honorary degrees, decided to award citations to distinguished alumnae on this special occasion. But Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations and Director of the Anniversary Celebration, would neither confirm nor deny the names of the recipients. Last night, however, Mrs. Hull said that she would definitely receive a citation...
...lethargy, thus making both types more responsive to psychiatric treatment. Three California doctors used such words as "dramatic" and "incredible" to describe the improvement wrought by reserpine* in 80% of the 74 patients on whom they tried it. They forecast in the A.M.A. Journal: "If . . . long-term studies substantially confirm these preliminary findings, reserpine will be the most important therapeutic development in the history of psychiatry...