Word: assertional
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...Recent reports assert that a certain wetting agent now used by wearers of contact lenses in their cleaning and wearing is harmful," Dr. Contratto stated. "Anyone in the University who wears contact lenses is advised to get in touch with his own ophthalmologist or with Health Service doctors as soon as possible...
Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...
...defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was another civil war: that in China. As Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven from the mainland to Formosa, it was inevitable that the Reds would soon attempt to assert the Chinese suzerainty that had been largely ineffectual for nearly 40 years...
...Japan. Even the brilliant Lady Murasaki, who wrote the famed Tale of Genji early in the 11th century, felt it necessary to conceal her accomplishments. The only heroic-sized woman known to the Japanese is the legendary Empress Jingo, who supposedly conquered Korea in A.D. 200-but Koreans indignantly assert that absence of records proves she never existed. Until 1923, Japanese law declared that "women, children and mental defectives shall not be associated with political activities...
Radcliffe's honor system is less apparent but perhaps more important in other areas than social activity. In 1899, when 'Cliffies first began to assert their urge for self-government, they looked to the library as the place to start. "Stimulated to action by continued and mysterious depredation among the books," the students formed a library committee. Although this group had almost no power over the management of the library, it was significant as the beginning of the honor system in its efforts to encourage students toward responsible use of library facilities...