Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first he believed the liquid was produced in the moth's digestive system. Analysis of the moth's digestive apparatus showed that there was a large amount of protein-digesting enzyme present but it was not certain this was the same enzyme as in the liquid. To confirm that the enzymes were the same, Kafatos became a bug surgeon, removing the midgut of twenty moths. As expected, none of the moths produced any liquid. Yet he was not satisfied with the result: it seemed too easy. He later realized that the pupae he used had been refrigerated for some time...
...some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that the early human was similar to modern man and had died around...
...believe that they will be drafted after graduation," sophomore Barry A. Margolin, undergraduate coordinator of the Union, said recently. "Seniors think their draft boards are different-but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam." The psychological impact of recent events has been to confirm these seniors' hopes of legally avoiding the draft. The immediate threat now seems less dangerous...
...wounded. He has, in the naked display of his rage at Eugene McCarthy for having survived on the lonely road he dared not walk himself, done with a single great gesture something very few public men have ever been able to do: in one day he managed to confirm the worst things his enemies have ever said about...
Looking through our files for background material to last week's news, we were pleased to confirm an impression that TIME has for years been telling what's going on in the money world, warning about impending dangers in the balance of payments deficit, discussing proposed solutions, pointing up the need for a new form of international monetary reserves. While such subjects are often considered too complicated to have wide reader appeal, we have felt that TIME'S readers want and need to know about them. So we have dealt with them in major stories through...