Word: affirmatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds were then put up as surety that Mr. Gordon-Haddon "will abstain from claiming to be the son of the Duke of Clarence or causing or encouraging others so to affirm...
...really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began in apostolic times. Jews and Mohammedans say amen. In Revelations it is used as a title of Christ, meaning "the faithful and true witness." Christ said it to affirm His utterances and no others. As to how He and His followers pronounced amen, the weight of modern scholarly opinion favors "ah-men"-the Aramaic...
...Chicago, Elliott had another interview with the Press on the subject of Miss Googins. "I don't affirm or deny anything. My father is entirely familiar with all my future plans. The Roosevelt family is a closed corporation. When one decides to do something, all the others get behind him. I will be in Chicago until noon Saturday in any event," he concluded. ''At that time I will announce my plans for the next 24 hours...
...present it would be illusory to slow down the preparation of military material. Only tomorrow will we know whether the other peoples are ready to disarm. ... I affirm that we can have confidence in our army, and I affirm that our national defense is assured...
...theism, deism, modernism, "new thought'' and instead of feeling religious emotions concentrates on human life-la- bor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation. ¶Humanism is for "a socialized and co-operative economic order-a shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their...