Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assembling of the 69th Congress saw four newcomers peeping into the Senate and looking around for their seats. All other Senators had occupied their seats, in the session of about two weeks held last March to confirm appointments and consent to treaties. The four newcomers are to fill the seats of senators who have died since last March. All are nominally Republican...
...when the Student Committee renders its report next spring, its work should be such as to confirm this assumption, then, indeed, will be time to recognize that the interests of education are best served when those who teach and those who are taught arrive at a mutual understanding by laboring together in their common cause, each the complement of the other...
Statisticians are declaring that the housing shortage is over, and numerous "To Rent" signs confirm their statements. Yet the astonishing construction boom continues. Likewise, old stockbrokers shake their heads and require larger margins, but stocks continue to march upward...
Having spent my life in using such brains as I possess in trying to better conditions of humanity, especially women, and having many years ago agreed to will my brain to Cornell (at their request), I hereby confirm that bequest, provided that a depleting illness or some special brain disturbance shall not have produced such brain disintegration as to render it no longer representative of the brains of women who have used their brains for the public welfare, as stated in the request of Cornell as the reason for wanting it, so as to add to the knowledge...
...Church and humanity is in question. Wherever there is a soul in danger or human suffering to alleviate, you are ready to do your best, cooperating with the common Father materially and morally for the salvation of mankind. I praise you for all this, and I want to confirm to you that I am with you in this excellent cause, with you in everything...