Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles -TIME, July 22, 1946]. At a 1953 geodetic meeting, U.S.C.&G.S. Mathematician Erwin Schmid announced a revised determination of the equatorial radius, 6,378,240 meters [3443.974 nautical miles], calculated solely from the latest adjustment of our surveys in the U.S. The new Army Map Service results thus confirm both within 20 meters or about 66 feet...
Though the Eisenhower administration presents an instructive case study in the operations of the consensus, we did not need to await the arrival of a Republican in the White House to confirm the fact that the postulates of the New Deal on economic security had become permanent features of our landscape. It was clear, I think, as early as 1947, when the Republicans secured a majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since...
...uproar began when an anonymous tipster spotted 18 light (25 tons) Walker Bulldog tanks loading aboard the freighter James Monroe in New York Harbor. Destination, plainly marked: Saudi Arabia. The tipster telephoned the United Press; the U.P. finally got the State Department in Washington to confirm the shipment, and printed the story. Cried the Israeli embassy: "Utterly beyond our comprehension." Within hours, Israel's friends in the Senate were in full cry. Their argument was a strong one: 1) the dispatch of tanks to Arab nations violates the declared U.S. policy of discouraging an arms race in the Middle...
Rhinelander's appointment to the post, which corresponds on the undergraduate level to that of Dean Bundy here, still requires official approval by Stanford's governing body. Stanford President John E. W. Sterling, reached in Palo Alto yesterday, said he "could not yet confirm" the appointment but disclosed that Rhinelander has visited Stanford within the past month...
Sherman, who knew about war, said that it was hell, and Jean Paul Sartre, who doesn't know about hell, says that hell is very dreary. In this first novel, Author William Hoffman has striven to confirm both points. He has addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia...