Word: confirmative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent assertions that deafness may be cured by the use of the radio telephone are at best dubious. Reports from London giving the opinions of physicians and specialists confirm the fact that experiments conducted with the radio telephone have produced no satisfactory results...
...whatever the final decision on this nerve-racking matter, human nature will probably remain the same. Should the graduates turn out to be the cleverer, "Ask Dad" is a rather comforting motto at times. Should the Freshmen more than hold their ground, it will only confirm the opinion that education is not all it's cracked...
...This is red; that is what I am," said Isadora Duncan; whipping a red scarf from her body and waving it bolshevikily. If by her dancing Saturday at Symphony Hall she meant to confirm this statement, one should concede her any tinge of red she wished. She saw red, surely, she looked pink, and she acted scarlet...
...observations made at the University are said to confirm the accuracy of many of the laws of vision worked out through totally different methods by psychologists. The recent investigators have measured carefully the way in which the response of the eye varies according to the intensity and duration of the light which shines upon it. By thus finding out more about the natural laws which govern the transmission of messages from the eyes to the brain, they hope in some degree to make it easier for the medical profession in the future to understand and treat defects of vision...
...General's secretary states that the old man is unable to remember what he has done with his hat. The secretary is of the opinion that in the excitement of the moment the General may have tossed it over the goal post, but the latter is unable to confirm this. Furthermore there are two hats on the rack which the secretary feels confident do not belong to the General. What...