Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence in the world many centuries ago. To affirm this is blasphemy...
...even the Secretary of State for War could touch his toes, what may be the state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard Shaw bid for a mile of notoriety by replying to a telephone question thus: Can I touch my toes? Is that what you've rung up to ask me? Well, God forgive...
...Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity and apedom had a common ancestor...
...easily. Ah, yes, to be sure, what a fitting transition; from the pinnacle of U. S. aspiration to a position of cloistered distinction, where Mr. Coolidge could round out his days impressing lofty tradition upon malleable youth by quiet example. No voice from Amherst spoke out to deny or affirm the Times' hint. President Coolidge of Amherst College seemed a development as likely as it was fitting...
...congress resolved: "The congress wishes most particularly to affirm the emphatic adhesion of the business world to the Geneva Conference regarding those tariff walls and policies which are unduly hampering trade directly or indirectly. It especially associates itself with the statement: 'The Conference declared that .the time had come to put an end to an increase in tariffs and to move in the opposite direction...