Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club." Naturally a host of intellectuals and liberals held up their hands in horror. Anglophiles among them looked across the sea and eulogized the English civil service, the tradition that the Oxford Union is a stepping stone to Parliament, the ease with which the English gentleman could assert his divine right to rule. While these commentators may have been swept off their feet by admiration for the English "genteel tradition," there is no doubt that they gleamed an idea from their observations: the colleges should be the happy-hunting ground for the civil service...
Jaakko had an on-paper team at the end of last spring that promised a performance superior to any in recent years; now he will commit himself no further than to assert that "The team will come through as long as the spirit keeps...