Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese would do when they had steadied their lines and regrouped their divisions was unclear. Perennial optimists on the Allied side fondly hoped that the enemy was preoccupied with the still-remote threat of U.S. landings on the coast. But there was no indication that the Japs intended to confirm this view. Once food supplies had been laid up and winter uniforms provided for their troops, the Japanese were likely to strike again toward Kweiyang and Kunming, try again to cut off China from the Ledo-Burma Road (see below...
...this feeling suggests a trend, however gradual, a survey of the doctors in the armed forces (one-third of all active doctors) tends to confirm it: 53% of them would like to go into group practice after...
...scores on previous Current Affairs Tests seem to confirm these findings: Out of the 105 questions in every test, college students score an average of 58 right answers-while TIME readers score an average...
...George Smith Patton Jr., who had scandalized his fellow officers and angered the U.S. public, whose promotion the U.S. Senate had righteously turned down, was last week again an admired U.S. general. The British press idolized him, the U.S. press forgave him and the Senate fell over itself to confirm his nomination to permanent rank of major general...
...wrote to his English sponsor saying, 'Send me, pray, a Frenchman that he may lay out our city for me.' Jefferson, two centuries later, followed his example by inviting Major l'Enfant to design the city of Washington. . . . "These and many other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from our great cities have their prototype and exemplar in the autostrade which star...