Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enshrouded the surrounding mountains seemed to presage a repetition of the Yale and Amherst ???. A strong wind was blowing from left field and the air was damp and chilly. The pitching was thus more uncertain than usual. Both ??? and Nichols seemed to have much difficulty in making their curves confirm to the fitful gusts of wind. The outfield was very soft, and many of the base hits would have been good for two basers on a hard field...
...affirmative argued that the power of the Senate to confirm nominations implies the right to obtain information about them. The Senate, which has a share in the appointing power, must necessarily possess a share in the power of removal. One power implies the other, and documents concerning removal should be submitted to the Senate. The name "private documents" cannot be applied to documents which relate in any way to the execution of the powers of government. Many precedents were cited where the Senate had obtained papers from the President. It was claimed inconsistent that Cleveland, avowedly the Civil Service Reform...
...lives blighted by this unmanly dishonesty at college, and the social condemnation with which it was visited. One of the most successful of Canon Farrar's works - a novel that rivalled "Tom Brown at Oxford" - drew its interest and power from one of those cases, and did much to confirm the manly, public opinion of the students of Cambridge on the subject...
...wages were higher here, but it was claimed that cost of living was proportionately high. Col. Wright's figures show the falsity of this. Wages in Massachusetts are 62 per cent. higher than in England, while the cost of living is only per cent. higher. United States census reports confirm this. Mr. Edward Atkinson's statistics give further proof of the benefits of Protection. He shows that while the profits of the capitalist have fallen, wages have risen...
Education, like almost everything else in Russia, is under government control, and the Moscow University forms no exception to the rule. It is under the supervision of the Ministry of Education who appoint the president and confirm the instructors. The Russian government must be credited, in this case at least, with making a good and judicious use of its power. The report of the Ministry of Education for 1882 showed the number of instructors to be about 330, and of students in all the departments, law, medicine, etc., to be about 2,400. These figures of themselves exhibit the importance...