Word: confirm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even though Congress instinctively mistrusts most State Department careerists, the Senate would probably confirm 42-year-old Jack Peurifoy with little trouble. Fifteen years ago, after a brief tour at West Point cut short by his father's death and his own pneumonia, Peurifoy started his career in Washington's bureaucracy in a $90-a-month job running an elevator in the Senate office building. When he returned to Capitol Hill last month to play State's David against Goliath Joe McCarthy, many a Senator privately admired the way he had slung back McCarthy's rocks...
...Women are supposed to have a greater proportion of body fat than men, but available data do not confirm any difference, let alone measure...
...past four years, Reyes and Fonacier have been fighting through the courts the question of who is supreme, and, incidentally, whether the Aglipayans will continue their uncomfortable liaison with Unitarianism or confirm an alliance with the Episcopal Church arranged in 1947. Though Fonacier plans to appeal, the decision of the court in favor of Reyes seems to have placed the 320 churches and 1,000 chapels of the Aglipayan Church within the Episcopalian fold...
Although President Conant's selection in 1933 as the new head of the University to succeed Lowell was announced a month before the Overseers were to meet to confirm the appointment, today very few decisions are publicized until the Overseers give their formal approval...
...would merely like to point out that Messrs. Poskanzer and Wyant, after branding my original letter "malicious untruth," then proceed to confirm in detail every one of my points...