Word: affirmatively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws of economics" to provide...
...undergraduate course in the field to which the student is supposed to have given special attention ought to go far toward making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student...
...prices for old clothes. They--our traditions--are deserving of our deepest veneration, and quadruple precious because of the mantel of age which surrounds them. Who is not stirred when looking on the gymnasium, busier in the year of the great war? Or when gazing at Boylston, which some affirm was standing when the late L. Ericsen pushed his dragon-prowed ships against the banks of the poetic Charles...
...perfect farce to say that everything testified there by one or two or three shall be based on what the applicant says, because you have not anything other than the young man's statement then. There must be three personalities there with personal knowledge of the things they affirm in order to comply with the terms of this statute, and to give one the right to assessment and registration under this statute...
...Borrowed," on the ever fresh problem of opera in Boston, one which should be solved if that community is to retain its position in the musical life of the country. Comments on an editorial from the "Opera Magazine," and reviews conclude a number of high standard which must re-affirm the consideration to which the "Musical Review" is entitled as a genuine contribution to the critical activity of our country...