Word: confirmant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will confirm the awards when they meet...
...hiding place, with its prominently displayed crucifix and holy pictures. Many Cubans believe that this means a new anti-church campaign against the few Catholic priests still remaining in Cuba. Since taking power in 1959, Castro has whittled their numbers from 600 to 220. As if to confirm fears of a further crack down, the government announced that forthwith priests and seminarians will be called up for military service...
...course studying films is hopeless without having films on hand to study--I took it for granted, and said I took it for granted, that I was not being telephoned to confirm that. What I emphasized was not merely the need for a film library as a condition for research and instruction, but also the function of such an institution in simply helping to preserve this body of perishing work. That so little effort has been given to this is only another instance of American culture's mad ingratitude or indifference toward its own best products. American universities are coming...
Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...
...surprise. Records of solar and lunar eclipses from as far back as 500 B.C. prove that days have been lengthening by an average of 1.8 milliseconds every century as tidal drag on the earth caused by both the moon and sun gradually slows terrestrial rotation. The same records confirm that sudden changes in the rate of slowdown have occurred before, probably because of varying interaction between the earth's mantle and its molten core, or shifts in atmosphere circulation and ocean currents...