Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption of the Rugby game is a sufficient proof that we gladly recognize, the superiority of other rules...
...certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold (even if the gold standard IS ONLY psychological), to deny the obligation of contract, to tax the poor for their bread and meat, to assert in an inauguration speech that the Federal, State, and local tax burdens must be reduced, and then to advocate legislation which has had the exact opposite effect...
...face of all the discouraging elements in the present situation, I nevertheless believe and assert that thus far in the history of this country the potential markets for steel have merely been tapped...
...inarticulate without the cliches of politics. Written with obviously frowning care, The Challenge to Liberty is thick with such muddy passages as this: "Today, these complexities, added to the aftermaths of war, loom large, and the voices of discouragement join with the voices of other social faiths to assert that an irreconcilable conflict has arisen in which Liberty must be sacrificed upon the altar of the Machine Age." Liberals will be surprised to hear Herbert Hoover speaking in defense of Liberalism but will soon discover that what he means by Liberalism is the old U.S. of "rugged individualism." Says...
Frankly acknowledging the substantial volume of criticism directed in recent times at the Graduate School of Business Administration and its place in Harvard University, President Conant last night in Baker Library pointed to his own field of chemistry for a defense. To critics of the Flexner school who assert that a business faculty has no place in an educational institution devoted to the pursuit of liberal arts, Mr. Conant told Business School students: "We are dealing here with a profession and not an art Business is the oldest of the arts and the latest of the professions...