Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied dispatches did not confirm the German reports but left no doubt that the all-out battle to drive the Axis African armies into the sea was at hand...
Marine Corps reservists will be called to active duty about July 1, and will follow a program similar to that of the Navy, according to the Yale Daily News, and will take the same qualifying test as V-1 in April. Marine offices in Boston, however, could not confirm this information, although it is generally accepted that the Marino reserve will be included in the Navy's v-12 college plan...
Flynn's opponents were unable to dredge up any wholly damning evidence. His positive qualifications for the job were still open to question, but this week Senate Democrats were ready to confirm him. There was one condition: that he resign his place as New York's male representative on the Democratic Committee. Apparently willing to accede, Ed Flynn coyly waited until he was sure of his diplomatic top hat before giving...
...times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
Seven bombers were lost. A gunner on a four-engined Lancaster bomber said he saw his bullets strike a Junkers SS night fighter, but could not confirm that it crashed