Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the kickoff on their own 20. The Coasters held Kirkland for which lasted throughout the whole first quarter. Slowly, Whitman's downs, however, in the first of a series of brilliant goal-line stands superb kicking brought Adams back to less dangerous territory, and then Adams began to assert itself...
...oracles on marriage. Their pronouncements usually were guesses, often contradicted each other. While some commentators, for example, said adultery was the chief cause of divorce, others contended it was poverty, low mentality, drink, nagging. Gynecologist T. H. Van de Velde spurned such simple explanations, went so far as to assert that mating should be between "a cyclothymic pycnic woman and a schizothymeleptosome...
...undoubtedly will decide several more, there is small wonder that demagogues have seized upon it as the most likely fertilizer for a bumper crop of votes. Both camps are guilty of rosy promises, but most striking is their use by New Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate the payment of billions in pension grants. Under this category, unfortunately must come the recent support, by Massachusetts Republicans, of the Townsend Plan...
...Authorities assert that H.U.E.R.A. and University are now bargaining "harmoniously...
...game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of nature-rains & flood -washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations...