Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's move made it one of the first major eastern universities to confirm a CRIMSON story this fall that the year 1951-52 would see a round of tuition hikes in colleges around the nation...
...line from East Germany was identified as Lieut. Colonel Fedor Nikolaevich Astakhov of the Red army. Astakhov is a geological wizard, a winner of the Stalin Prize, and until recently in charge of all technical operations in the Russian-run uranium mines in southeastern Germany. Allied intelligence would not confirm, but did not deny, that the new Soviet "defector of colonel's rank" is Astakhov. If he is, the West has found a source of atomic intelligence as useful as Britain's missing Bruno Pontecorvo presumably is to the Russians...
Perhaps more than any of its predecessors, this generation wants a good; secure job. This does not mean that it specifically fears a depression, as some aging New Dealers claim. The feeling is widespread that anyone who wants to work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling (and the starting pay is better 'than ever). But youth's ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like...
...Fantastic Notion." "The trouble with Smith, Vassar, and the others," White once declared, "is that they don't go ahead. They merely confirm each other's prejudices." And the worst prejudice, White decided, was that women's colleges should remain a feminine imitation of men's, accepting the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men . . ." When a woman marries, she feels ashamed to find herself "just a housewife." And when her children are old enough to leave her, she finds she has nothing to do. Educated women...
...Senate took exactly four minutes to confirm Robert Abercrombie Lovett as the new Secretary of Defense; it happened to be on Lovett's 56th birthday. There was only one hitch. North Dakota's isolated Bill Langer wanted to know whether this was the Robert Morss Lovett who had been investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1943.* Assured that it was not, Langer made the vote unanimous...