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Word: confirmation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Of Mary Churchill (TIME, Aug. 30) you say: "Most of her dates are with British and U.S. officers . . . one of them took her to see the prize fights between British and U.S. soldiers." Since I was this particular U.S. officer I can well confirm your description of Mary's gracious charm and mature intelligence. But let me add another trait: the indomitable Churchill courage against odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Hotel Statler: given by the Army and Navy Officers Club. Admission fifty cents. III. SUNDAY MOVIES--The feature this week at the air-cooled Music Building will be "CONFIRM OR DENY" with Don Ameche. These movies are for the Student Officers of the Naval Training Schools of Harvard University. COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welfare and Recreation Schedule | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...News Chronicle's reliable Derek Patmore wrote from Istanbul that the Lebanese capital and chief port, Beirut, had begun to rival Cairo as an Allied base. "The huge concentrations of United Nations troops in Syria and Lebanon seem to confirm the general feeling that attacks on the Greek Islands and the Dodecanese will take place in the near future." Besides "extremely important units of British and Imperial troops," there was in this theater a Greek army "fully equipped with the latest weapons and totaling 30,000 men. Supplies are pouring in from Egypt. It can now be revealed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Soon the Guns... | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Just as failure and defeat had in the past done much to aggravate inter-Allied and interservice frictions, now success was furthering cooperation. Bigger challenges and greater victories than Tunisia will both depend on and confirm this new amity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How It was Done | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Although unable to check completely all details of the many struggles which took place in the early hours of the "February 26 Incident," Grew has been able to confirm several stories of great heroims on the part of the victims and their associates. The Prime Minister's life was saved by his brother-in-law, who sacrificed himself with characteristic disregard for personal safety, while the 20 year old grandaughter of Count Makino prevented his death at the hands of a group of soldiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grew Describes Anti-Liberal Purge By Japanese Army, Navy Officers | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

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