Word: affirmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that we are still allowed to reply to criticism. When we are accused of schoolboy skepticism, we can affirm our faith in democracy and freedom. We question the efficiency of a means, not the validity of those ends. We can still maintain that our disillusionment is only in war as an instrument of democracy...
Coming at the same time as a petition signed by 300 members of the College to affirm his appointment, the letter states that "the organized attack upon the appointment . . . . is a challenge to all Americans who cherish the principle of intellectual and cultural freedom...
...Ethel Turp Call on the President (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This appealing little picture, which aims to affirm the democratic dogma, implies some things its creators never intended. One of them is that to call on the President is one of the last things a U. S. Turp ever would or should think of doing...