Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical authorities assert that to a fatigued, nervous, jumpy system a warm shower before retiring has a relaxing, beneficial effect. More particularly, Dr. Means, medical adviser to the University, has observed many such jumpy personalities about Harvard. Moreover, a warm shower at night is a harmless and often welcome form of relaxation even to the not-so-jumpy members of society...
Among "mediaeval superstitions" Professor Holmes places the doctrine of Virgin Birth, the "fall of man", and the miracle stories of the Old and New Testaments. In discussing the Bible he says. "I do not only admit but assert the great value of the Bible as the time-sifted literature of a great people. Its legends and mythologies are mines of wealth in the understanding of primitive minds, which include the child minds of our own time. And no age will outgrow the stimulation and enthusiasm of the noble prophetic writings. But that does not involve the acceptance of their wonder...
...sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This may be the kind of thing that has made critics assert that laughter is founded on a sense of superiority,* but Hot for Paris will flatter that sense only broadly, good-humoredly. Director Raoul Walsh is said to have thought up the story while he was riding in an airplane. Typical gags: "You must have a sweetport in every heart"; "coal...
After committing any of the mere violent or original breaches of what passes for good etiquette, one of these cards, with the particular sins of the previous evening checked off, can be mailed, or at least so its promoters assert, to the offended host or hostess. A sample of the card inspected by editors of the CRIMSON last night, however, suggested some doubt as to whether receipt of the missile by the host or hostess would in any way contribute to mended feelings and repaired relations...
...become a solemn obligation and a (revolutionary right for the people of India to assert their inherent power and dissolve the immoral ties which bind them to the British imperial system...