Word: assert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, impossible to assert categorically that evasions of the eligibility rules never occur. Among the thousands of college students that engage in athletics in American universities, there are undoubtedly a few who have succeeded in hoodwinking the authorities. But the assertion of Commissioner Tigret, on the strength of these isolated cases, that the spirit of professionalism rules intercollegiate sport, is an appreciate overstatement of fact; and to imply that the president of the colleges involved deliberately wink at such a state of affairs is to border on the ridiculous...
Those who know Mr. Fisher assert without question that he never thought of casting a reflection on the memory of President Harding. He himself explicitly denied the imputation that " President Harding favored the League of Nations, but did not dare to make his views public." The statements attributed by Mr. Fisher to the late President are not contrary to the general substance of Mr. Harding's speeches which favored an " Association of Nations." There is no question but that Mr. Fisher is innocent of all political arts, as some of his accusers...
...personal friends " assert...
...militia and condemning the strikers. The friends of Mr. Coolidge declare that he took no action in advance of the strike because he was in touch with the Police Commissioner and was misled by the latter's optimistic belief that there would be no strike. They further assert that as soon as the Governor knew the actual conditions he immediately did all in his power. It is evident, however, that the credit of restoring order after the strike must be given to the Mayor of Boston, not to the Governor of Massachusetts...
None of these actions is at all decisive. Those who pretend to be "on the inside" assert that the miners and operators have no intention of suspending work. The threat of an anthracite boycott is significant only because it indicates desperation in New England (which constitutes a large part of the anthracite-using public). If New Englanders can give up their predilection for hard coal, their furnaces cannot. The expense and trouble of changing a large number of private furnaces to burn soft coal efficiently would materially injure the effectiveness of a boycott. As for the call of the Coal...