Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this intercession of the Lord. Today we are thinking of those who fell. They marched to the battlefront praying, trusting in the righteousness of their cause. True to their oath, they died for the Kaiser and the Reich, for German fame and honor. We owe it to them to assert all our strength to retain that for which they died. We promise to do that in unshakable faith and with our eyes fastened upon the Savior of the world, who once prayed also for German soldiers. Then we, too, shall earn the praise He gave to the Roman centurion...
This evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall the Freshman debating team will meet the Yale speakers in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate, when the Harvard team will assert the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved. That college athletics should be intramural with the exception of one game in each sport each year...
Slowly the face of the "Iron Man" grew livid, but he controlled himself, answered evenly: "Aside from the damnable insinuation that a man like Mr. Young might use information, if given, for purposes of speculation, the report is absolutely false. I desire to assert emphatically that not even the German Government, but only President von Hindenburg, knew of my intention to resign...
...whom goes the kudos of priority in crystallizing, and therewith isolating, this hormone? Professor Butenandt claims that he was first, that he was merely beaten to publicity. Professors Collip and Campbell might assert the same...
...continue in the suburbs of Manhattan. Hope Williams, as the distraught bride, pleads for her husband's love without avail. Then she recalls something her father, a wise old expatriate, had said in Paris: "Love is a compromise in which people sometimes lose grace." This stimulates her to assert her individuality, eliminate the pleading, and thus regain her spouse's devotion...