Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point at issue is whether or not, once this value has been accepted, experiments in conversation will further a man's appreciation of the literature and its underlying culture. If you deny this you must then assert that the French and German tables perform simply a pragmatic function, which is that of making Freshmen able to get around in Europe. In all other senses, Latin is just as much a "living" language as any other. Certainly a lover of Latin can think in Latin, just as a lover of French thinks in that language as he reads his favorite authors...
...alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
...sure, has tried to interfere, but in such a mild fashion that it seems probable that the League is afraid of lowering the prestige of the Liberal-Democratic party which is now in power in Japan by giving too many orders, and thereby not giving Japan enough time to assert its own authority in Manchuria." This party, however, Professor Porter believes, will find it difficult to step the activities of the Japanese soldiers in Manchuria because the military operations there are being conducted by General Tanaka, who is leader of the old militaristic party that was overthrown...
Socialism which has been lurking for some time over England will, in this election, first assert itself. If the Labor party does win, the position of England will become unpredictable. It may resort to the usual radical tactics of conservatism in power, or it may introduce new legislation of a socialistic nature. If the MacDonald faction is victorious, the necessary support will probably be assured for the carrying out of the famous "doctor's mandate...
...hotel business last week neither Lucius Boomer nor Oscar was downhearted as the day approached when Banker Charles Hayden would start the register with his name and be given credit card No. 1. Average figures from the depressed hotel industry did not daunt them, for, they were glad to assert, the new Waldorf-Astoria is not an average hotel, cannot be judged by average standards...