Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skeptics who affirm that no news is printed in any U. S. sheet which might give affront to the advertisers or possible advertisers of that sheet were shocked last week to see in at least two Manhattan newspapers an account which cast terrible aspersions upon that powerful dining-room incorporation, the Horn & Hardart ("Automat...
...such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
...affirm here that the Latin and imperial tradition of Rome today are represented by Catholicism. If, as Mommsen said, 25 or 30 years ago, one cannot stay in Rome without a universal idea, I think, and affirm, that the only universal idea which today exists in Rome is that which radiates from the Vatican. I am very uneasy when I see national churches being formed, because I know that there are millions of men who will no longer look to Italy and to Rome. For this reason, I offer this hypothesis: If the Vatican were to definitely renounce its temporal...
Friendly, courteous, firm, the note is brief and its principal contents, it was authoritatively stated, express dissatisfaction with Secretary Hughes' reply, and affirm Japan's intention of keeping the Immigration Act of 1924 an open question...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...