Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
...Ambassador's immense study. Everywhere are paintings of Kings and Queens and the lesser mighty. Only one touch of the incongruous is present and that is when the door of the British Embassy is opened by a flunkey from Spain who has failed so far to assert his mastery over the English language...
...dispute were to arise with one of the Caribbean republics of such proportions as to demand the intervention of Britain as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, would the United States step in and assert her sole right to settle it? This was what she did in the Venezuelan matter.* In the future, Canada might have a very great interest in the solution. Foreign policy is rapidly becoming an affair not of Britain alone, but of the Britannic Commonwealth...
Others who fail to find in the picture the face they seek, assert with conviction that college politics, not beauty, governs the selection of the 24 bearers of the Daisy Chain. Still others condemn the whole Daisy Chain as "cheap," "vulgar." "It much resembles a bathing-beauty contest!" cry they. "Daisy Chains should be abolished...
...nation in the world to control." He is doubtful of the wisdom with which this power is now being used. The doubts of Senator Shipstead are in many cases justified, but unfortunately his proposal raises the embarrassing question of whether the people of the United States are willing to assert such power or any international power. They have had it for the taking once before...