Word: affirms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hopeful West Indians also believe that a larger economic unit is more likely to attract the outside capital so badly needed for further development. But for the region's politically dominant Afro-West Indians, the projected union probably represents less an effort to achieve economic betterment than to affirm a sort of nationhood that will erase the indignity of past slavery...
Tillich resents the attempt of the Catholic philosophers to prove the existence of God by rational means. "It is blasphemy," he says, "to affirm the existence of God. The answer cannot come out of the question." His reasoning: since God is "The Unconditional," and utterly outside human experience, it is impossible to describe Him or to attempt proofs of His existence in limited human terms. Along with Theologian Earth, Tillich has rejected Aquinas' "two-story house" of supranatural and natural theology ("There is no natural theology"). His substitute is a roomy one-story structure open at all times...
...Affirm or deny that you were among those who sent greetings to the Moscow Art Theater on its soth anniversary...
...same love of people around the world who do not know your names, but who do know you by your cause and your great tradition. We and our friends found the courage to resist [aggression in Korea] two years ago. It is to press that courage home, to affirm and to establish the faith that a peaceful world can in truth be built, that . . . you have been asked to serve your country with the hope and promise of your lives...
...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...