Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington buzzed with the disclosure, but the Government seemed strangely unconcerned. White House Secretary Steve Early would neither confirm nor deny it. To a crowd of agitated reporters, he remarked calmly: "Your right to print the news is . . . unchallenged and unquestioned...
These Seminole ways confirm Robert Briffault's assertion in his great study of matriarchies, The Mothers, that patriarchal marriage and the patriarchal family are "relatively late products of social evolution." Mother-dominated societies came first. Big reason: among primitive folk, sexual relations are often so free that only a child's mother is identifiable...
...confirm the last theory Zoologist Robert E. Gregg of the University of Chicago made 33 experiments with 9,537 ants of the species Pheidole morrisi. He arranged for ant larvae to be reared to maturity under the care of soldiers only and of workers only, and found: "Where the soldier caste is present in large numbers, there is a decrease in the number of soldiers that are produced. Conversely, in pure colonies of workers an excess of soldiers tends to appear over the number which normally develop in a control colony...
...last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road from Miami. Says Norton: "It is just the right kind of place for such an institution. Results since the gallery opened confirm our belief. Lots of lookers...
...Foreign War Committee closed up shop two months ago. So isolated last week was Isolationist Marshall that even his own family made a mystery of his whereabouts. Persistent rumor said he was in a sanatorium somewhere in Wisconsin. But his family-including his five daughters-refused to confirm the rumor. Family friends were more specific. Said one of them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things he's done." Still rumorous were the reasons Verne Marshall never returned...