Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Sieber delivered his formal opinion as follows: "No one would consider a statement libelous which merely affirmed that a man had overstepped the old-fashioned so-called proprieties. Now the spirit of the times affirms absolutely the equality of men and women. One is therefore obliged to take the view that it is not libelous to affirm that a woman has overstepped the proprieties. To take any other view would be to affirm that all women and girls who do so are deserving of public scorn. This, too, is contrary to the spirit of our times. I therefore declare...
...bespectacled Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The notes continue, by avowed mutual consent, the modus vivendi between the U. S. and Turkish State Departments which has to be patched up from time to time, because the U. S. Senate refuses (TIME, Jan. 24) to ratify the treaty of Lausanne which would affirm U. S. recognition of the Turkish Government...
...London Evening Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would...
Hubbard mentioned in his charges that Princeton players dislocated Maher's wrist in the 1922 Harvard-Princeton Freshman game. Maher refused to either affirm or deny the act yesterday...
...That he wanted his will to make a huge splash I cheerfully affirm. How he would have enjoyed the universal amazement! . . . It must have strained him mightily to keep that gorgeous secret...