Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper by Professor Stetson and Miss Olmstead at the fall meeting of the American Astronomical Society at Amherst. Since then the investigation of thousands of observations for latitude of the Naval Observatory at Washington has been analyzed at the Harvard Laboratory and Dr. Stetson announces this appears unmistakeably to affirm the results of his previous study. The fact that this rise and fall of the value in latitude is gradual and systematic and represents a range nearly 20 times the value of the probable error leaves little room for doubt as to the reality of the variation...
...light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift in the earth's instantaneous axis of rotation. As a last resort it may be necessary to consider movement in the earth's crust, although Professor Stetson was reluctant to affirm this statement until a more extensive study of allied problems had been completed...
...handclapping, for the beating of palm upon palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm the election of the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, rector of Washington's Epiphany. Dr. Phillips is a liberal evangelical, is a compromise president, for he is pleasing to the liberal (quasi-Roman) high church & to the evangelical (Methodistic) low church. When it came...
Since 1925 Colonel Morrow has been quietly presiding over his commission, having previously been Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. A close lipped Army career man, he would neither affirm nor deny, last week, reports that his commission is on the point of submitting its completed findings to President Coolidge, who acts, by request of Chile & Peru, as a gingerly umpire of the dispute...
...therefore affirm our guiding purpose...