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...Your presence here is a very impressive demonstration of your desire. I doubt if any of my countrymen would hesitate to assert that if the womanhood of the nation want something they will be bound to secure...
France. Paris viewed the American victory with disdain. French racing men assert uncompromisingly that their three-year-old Epinard is the best horse in the world...
...contemporary composers none is more uniformly applauded, or more deservedly so, than the Finn, Sibelius. His first symphony ripens with age and familiarity; it receives full and adequate expression at the hands of Mr. Monteux. It gives the lie to those who assert that Beethoven or Brahms said all that could be said within the limits of sonata form...
...there such a thing as ether, as the old-school physicists assert and Einstein denies? If so, does the ether fill the universe, absolutely at rest and permeating freely through all material bodies, or does the earth, as it revolves upon its axis, drag the ether with...
...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...