Word: affirmance
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...with us. ... A little patience now, a brief respite from fear and uncertainty, during which the vast financial reserves which caution has gathered can be placed behind the new ideas and methods developed by research, and we shall be on our way toward a higher standard of living. ... I affirm the duty of industrial leaders to hasten this development, so pregnant with good for all mankind. . . . The good life lies ahead somewhere along the road of abundance, and we shall find it by continuing in that direction with stout hearts and open minds...
...when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost little of its significance in the long, loud, vicious debates and investigations which followed it: "I affirm that either by the fact of the international solidarity of the great metallurgy companies, or in order to safeguard private business interests, our military chiefs were ordered not to bombard the establishments of the Briey basin, which were being exploited by the enemy during the war. I affirm that our aviation...
...bonds were then put up as surety that Mr. Gordon-Haddon "will abstain from claiming to be the son of the Duke of Clarence or causing or encouraging others so to affirm...
...really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began in apostolic times. Jews and Mohammedans say amen. In Revelations it is used as a title of Christ, meaning "the faithful and true witness." Christ said it to affirm His utterances and no others. As to how He and His followers pronounced amen, the weight of modern scholarly opinion favors "ah-men"-the Aramaic...
...Chicago, Elliott had another interview with the Press on the subject of Miss Googins. "I don't affirm or deny anything. My father is entirely familiar with all my future plans. The Roosevelt family is a closed corporation. When one decides to do something, all the others get behind him. I will be in Chicago until noon Saturday in any event," he concluded. ''At that time I will announce my plans for the next 24 hours...