Word: confirmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumber Hells." From Leningrad to Helsinki (Finland) hastened angrily Editor-Publisher George M. Cornwall of The Timberman of Portland, Ore. He had entered Russia last week to check up on Soviet lumber production, confirm or refute rumors of Russian convicts worked to death in Soviet "Lumber Hells" (TIME, Sept. 22). Said...
...Treasury by payment of $60,000. It was further gathered that the payment had been made not by Mayor Hague himself but by Theodore M. Brandle, Jersey City's building tsar. Because tax matters are secret by law, Treasury officials could not and Mayor Hague would not confirm the settlement...
Small Goddard rockets utilizing this fuel have been weighted, ignited, allowed to rise a measurable distance. Only in this way may accurate rocket data be gathered. Dr. Goddard declines .to confirm reports that he is now building a new giant test rocket, soon to be sent skyward from a Government-loaned field at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass...
Until last week 90 men had been nominated to the U. S. Supreme Court in its 141 years, of whom 77 had been confirmed by the Senate to sit on the highest bench. Eight nominees the Senate had rejected, four it had failed to act upon by indefinite postponement. Rejection No. 9 went into history when the Senate refused (41-39) to confirm U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina, nominee...
...past student of the phenomenon is John Howard Dellinger, chief of the radio laboratory of the Bureau of Standards who last week made no observations but hoped that others would confirm his work. Chief among confirmers was Herbert Hoover Jr. who studied the effect in California, wrote a story about it for William Randolph Hearst. Substantiating the Kennelly-Heaviside theory, said he: "It was found . . . that radio conditions which ordinarily are associated with darkness became noticeable during ... the eclipse...