Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barracks which bulged out on the Common. Then came that memorable day, July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe...
...bought for immediate use do not rise above $2.83 or fall below $2.77 in the transaction. The change will mean nothing to tourists and perhaps little to traders. But Chancellor R. A. ("Rab") Butler was in effect making a gesture in the direction of free markets, as if to affirm that the give & take of private trading and not the rigid mechanism of authority is the proper way to set the value of a nation's currency. Like the payment to the tailor, it might not be much more than a gesture, but it was a gesture...
Contacted yesterday, von Stade would neither affirm nor deny the story...
...Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good men of all nations, races and religions...
...wire a most unusual man, inspire legitamate indiggnation on the part of other religious bodies represented at the college. In the interests of fairness they would demand General Education courses on their own religions acceptance of these courses would clutter up the catalogue and denial of them would affirm Harvard's official support of one particular religion. The partisan furor stirred up, furthermore, would go a long way towards undermining the original purpose of the course--to acquaint students with the spirit common to all religions...