Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received a reasonably thorough drill in the fundamental qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...
...assigned policy, entirely in the hands of the Corpora-tion." The argument for this arrangement is that the Board is not the kind of organization efficiently to operate a large business. Its seven members are by law chosen geographically to represent all parts of the country. Advocates of separation assert that the Board is political, whereas the operation should be placed entirely in the hands of a business organization...
...Belasco came through fairly favorably. This year, the skies have darkened. David Belasco produced Tiger Cats-a dull and savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge, the bed, to feather his declining nest...
...unsullied by the innocent blood of any teacher of gospel, Violence is not our way. Human differences we believe must be removed by humans methods and never by unworthy motives backed by brutal force, idealistic America should not go back to the path of the old European world, but assert her democratic way of cooperation in all endeavors. Young India is proud of America's achievements and fervently looks up to her for inspiration and help in her present struggle against evil that has crept into her system and has thus rendered her social, economic, political and spiritual existence unworthy...
...drug trade and the users of industrial alcohol are most earnestly opposed to the measure. They assert that the present restrictions on the use of alcohol are very severe, but that, under the Prohibition Unit, conditions would be worse; that they would be placed at the mercy of a group of agents not gifted with an understanding of their legitimate business needs?sleuths, in fact, whose sole training has been to regard every user of alcohol as a criminal...