Word: confirmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet-to-California-via-the-North-Pole flights of the Russians "absolutely confirm" the theory that the earth is flat, said eccentric Wilbur Glen Voliva, Zion City, Ill. clergyman. He was unprepared to concede that they could have flown over the South Pole had they wished. "There is no South Pole," said Wilbur Glen Voliva...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
...know that my mother would confirm the fact that it was her wish that the funeral should take place on that day and that the King would agree that opposition to the proposal was confined to Sir Gerald Wollaston...
...snapping turtle can be more close-mouthed than Vice President Garner and there was nothing to confirm such a supposition. But if the supposition were not valid, there remained only one inference: President and Vice President neither expected nor hoped to win action on the Supreme Court or any other important issue for several weeks-the White House had resigned itself to letting the New Deal program sink or swim in the Congressional doldrums...
...White House press conference a newshawk laughingly asked whether the President was going to "confirm" the Senate's "nomination" for the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt grimaced, declared that all reports of whom he would nominate should be labeled "Surmise No. 23." Meanwhile Senators began to cast about for a majority leader to succeed Joe Robinson if he became Justice. The President was understood to favor Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, now assistant leader, who sees eye to eye with the New Deal. Senators were much more inclined to favor James Francis Byrnes of South Carolina, who is more popular...