Word: affirmations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...elements of character that go to make up the man, Eugene O. Sykes, are not, I affirm, those that bespeak for him the requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense...
...follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they have recorded shear waves passing through the core, believe therefore that the core is solid. Others are equally sure the core refuses to transmit shear waves, is hence molten-at a pressure of 15,000,000 Ib. per sq. in., a temperature of 50,000 degrees...