Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That although Allies and Germans tend to slur over their defeats, the communiqués issued by the actual military and naval commands of both sides are generally reliable and generally in the long run confirm each other. (Exception: accounts of air raids. Aviators of both sides swooping in at 300 m.p.h. through a barrage, dropping their bombs and getting out in a hurry are likely to overestimate damage done...
...constitute the inauguration of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican." Both to the Federal Council and the Christian Century these seemed weasel words. Said the Council's executive committee: "The unwarranted interpretation of this appointment . . . has not been explicitly denied." Wrote Editor Morrison: "Mr. Roosevelt will only confirm the opinion now held widely throughout the country that he wishes the ambassadorship of Mr. Taylor to be regarded by Catholics in one way and by Protestants in another...
...informed, despite the fact that a number of scientists in various parts of the world have attempted to confirm Dr. Adler's work, only one man feels that he possibly has done so -a French worker, Dr. Etienne Burnet...