Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informal end came long ago. At least 15% of current Hollywood films are reportedly written by blacklist members. Says Producer King: "There are more ghosts in Hollywood than in Forest Lawn. Every company in town has used the work of blacklisted people. We're just the first to confirm what everybody knows." Writer Trumbo himself has sold "many screenplays" under nine pseudonyms. Since 1947 Trumbo's income, slashed 90% in the first eight years, has actually risen above his pre-blacklist level...
...speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...
...same time, other Ivy League schools have fielded the strongest freshman teams McCurdy has ever seen. "Cornell's freshmen were just unbelievable," he says, and the Big Red's IC4A Freshman championship would confirm his statement. Dartmouth had two standouts one of whom ran Mark Mullin off his feet...
...crash occured when one vehicle, moving the wrong way on Plympton St., towards Memorial Drive, hit the left front fender of the other automobile and then careened into the corner of McKinlock Hall. Cambridge police would not confirm reports that the operator of one of the cars was intoxicated...
...earth's magnetic field is now known not to come from a permanent-magnet core. A probe may help confirm the current theory that the revolving earth and its molten metal interior form a giant dynamo, generating electric currents and thus magnetism. If the probe reports that the moon itself has no magnetic field, it will make the terrestrial-dynamo theory seem more credible...