Word: affirmance
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Against these two views, the one crudely destructive, the other subtly destructive, of the advancement of learning, the celebrations this year will affirm the principle that if the universities are to do their work they must be independent and they must be disinterested...
...University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...
...authorized by law to administer oaths, or, in case of a public school teacher, before the superintendent of schools or a member of the school committee of the city or town in whose schools he is appointed to serve, each of whom is hereby authorized to administer oaths and affirmations under this section, the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the position of (insert name of position) according...
...Americanism." The superintendents knew they were on a spot when they trooped into the final meeting. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace raised liberal hopes briefly by glooming over the end of capitalism. But when he was done the Resolutions Committee reported out one mild resolution on the Great Issue: "We affirm our unqualified belief in the principle of academic freedom...
...Treaty of Versailles forbids Germany to possess submarines or war planes. Herr Hitler has tacitly admitted possession of an air force (TIME, March 4). Last week the naval correspondent of London's carefully conservative Morning Post did not say that Germany has any actual submarines, but he did affirm that she has an excellent new type of undersea boat on drafting boards and in the brains of capable designers. Special advantage of this blueprint craft is that it needs no storage batteries for submerged propulsion...