Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last six years I have crossed the continent six times and in one year I have been in 25 states. I believe that I am in a position to draw conclusions as to the good working of the prohibition amendment and I assert that there are more children in the schools than there ever were before...
...possible argument for the widest dissemination of those generalities which approach truth from both sides. The impact may bring war, as it did. When it took place near, the altar on the east wall, but it may also produce a Cromwell and a Harry Vane. And, as Carlyle would assert, it is the hero who directs traffic at the corners of the world...
...unfortunate for the nation however, that these inhibitions outlive a college course, and continue to assert themselves after graduation. The undergraduate is usually conscious enough of his own insignificance, often painfully so. The graduate, apparently, does not lose this conception, when in all reality, he has every right to regard himself more seriously. The undergraduate feels that he does not count in the large world; and probably he doesn't. Whatever the graduate feels, it is obvious that whether he wants to or not he does count. His is the larger sphere of action and influence; and while...
...order that lack wits may appear intelligent, someone with the necessary knowledge must perform the informedary steps. And since this is so, those who view with alarm may effect that it should not be long before the workers refuse to enrich the puppets any further, and proceed to assert their intellects in their own right...
...first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive. For instance, the development of Irene, from an innocent, sensitive child to the inhuman...