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There are sporting gentlemen who loudly affirm that Williams is the most brilliant player in tennis. Others question this, declaring that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's. The truth can never be known, but assuredly, in the third set of this match, he became what his supporters say he is-the pale resistless nonpareil of tennis. So it fell out that he and Richards took the next three sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the match, the National Doubles title...
...secondary sensation followed upon the first. It was found that Mr. Wittner, in taking his oath of office, had not only stricken out the word "swear" and left "affirm" (which is an offered alternative since certain sects regard swearing as blasphemous), but had also stricken out the words "so help me God" which conclude the oath. The oath is prescribed by law and it was suggested that the Treasury Department might undertake to oust him on the grounds that he had not taken a proper oath...
...Baptist Board of Foreign Missions reported that numbers of foreign missionaries, including many of the older men, were weak in the faith. This was followed by a resolution offered by a Fundamentalist, the Rev. Walter B. Hinton of Portland, Ore., proposing that all missionaries should be obliged to affirm their belief in the Baptist creed...
This ratio of art and mechanics is exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five...
...ecclesiastical crépe-hanger of England?" "I neither affirm nor deny...