Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair's right, if he chooses to assert it. thus virtually to admit his guilt...
...losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...
...this is so, and they are willing to demand what they wish, the Mayor has hardly been consistent in depriving them, as he has, of the opportunity to exercise this very power of discrimination; and if his original statement is exaggerated, and Boston is really, as the atrical managers assert, a "leg-show town", it seems quite useless to attempt a reformation of character by such superficial means...
...object to Church activities in politics. ... I don't want people to unite in benevolent conspiracies, headed by men of the W. H. Anderson type, telling us what to do with our laws. I am a Protestant, coming from an old line of Protestants, but I assert that it is of greater significance that I am an American coming from an old line of Americans. If I controlled the next Democratic National Convention I would name a Catholic. If we can't nominate a man for the Presidency unless he belongs to some particular sect it is time...
...editorial printed on Monday entitled "Carpenters and Architecture" the CRIMSON criticized somewhat unfavorably the editorial policy recently published by the Yale News. What was criticized was not the conservatism of the policy, for conservatism is often as valuable as it is dangerous to assert, nor the individual suggestions for change, timely and good in themselves, but the fact that these suggestions only skimmed the surface...