Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's waiting room in rural England is taking the place once occupied by the vicarage, says British Journalist Ronald Duncan in Punch. "As any doctor will now confirm, at least 20% of his patients are not suffering from any physical ailment whatever. These people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
...Hofeld's attitude and in fact the general dubious methods of the entire campaign only confirm a previously held conviction that the Student Council at Harvard College is nothing more than a band of low, cheap, conniving pirates totally unprincipled in its savagery of extortion, a tight cliche (sic) which, after carefully replacing the windows in its office with mirrors, spends many pleasurable hours looking out and formulating student opinion. (formulating is really too strong a word to be used here as it implies a thinking process...
...being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist, but one of those hated leftist Social Democrats*-seemed to confirm a growing rift between Yugoslav and Soviet Communists...
...react with the usual wheal to scratch tests with any of the common causes of allergy. To explain this, he postulated that the patients must have a concealed reaction marked by quickening of the heartbeat. He called this supposed condition idioblapsis (literally, self-produced harm), sought to confirm it by noting rises in the pulse rates of patients after eating certain foods...