Word: assailable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regarding the moral problems of a surgeon he said: "We immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a gesture, he may stand as an arbiter be tween the life or death of one of his fellows. . . . Lives of infants, who are on the threshold of life and in whom are centred the hopes and happiness of their parents, of women, young women, especially, who appeal most touchingly...
...this morning at 9 o'clock when Professor Yeomans proposes to discuss in Harvard 2 the influence of the said clause upon the decisions of administrative officers. A technical subject, admitted, except for the student of government, but a vagabond must fight against those vague and fanciful feelings which assail one after a Georgian breakfast...
...Flay" Denounced. "If there is any gratitude in the newspaper profession for the interest we are taking in their work, I wish that they would assassinate the terms rap, assail, attack and flay from news stories and headlines. Every newspaper I read is guilty of the use of these overused words, and I would even suggest the award of a Pulitzer prize for the newspaper man who devises substitutes for these pugnacious words" - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University...
...Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor: "Men who are really able are not often inclined to substitute insolence for argument, "? They recall his reply: "The protectionists get lachrymose. . . . They sigh to think that young men are growing up who assail political saints and economic quacks...
...stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?...