Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies of arms as well as Hungarian. Thus it seemed, last week, that Count Stephen Bethlen might eventually succeed in bluffing not merely one Chinaman but the League Council as a whole...
...Comerford of Boston was unable to confirm the report of his selection as head football coach at Yale to succeed T. A. D. Jones when reached at his home by telephone late last night...
...suggestion of students, and without the knowledge of the higher college authorities. But the news added meat to the theories of persons already convinced of the seditious and iconoclastic tendencies of the colleges, and it was consumed with relish. The recent tragedy, in some inexplicable way, was held to confirm such opinions...
Democratic-leader Robinson took this insubordination calmly. Other members of the Hearst-investigating committee got up to confirm his opinion of the alleged Roman Catholic "conspiracy." But Senator Heflin continued insubordinate. This time the fight waxed...
...Diesel engine are reported by Mr. Sperry after years of research. The new motor weighs close to the lightest gasoline engine; is capable of delivering speed and horsepower comparable to good racing motors of the normal type. Experts read the news with deepest interest, hoping that widespread tests will confirm Mr. Sperry's belief that the new power plant meets every air requirement ; that by elimination of the fire hazard it will add an enormous safety factor to flying; particularly for commercial and passenger planes...