Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zone has helped to make South American states suspicious of an expanding northern neighbor, and as a result, trade has declined. With the changed conditions it is highly expedient that the United States once more make clear her relations to her southern neighbors. Two courses lie open: either to assert baldly a policy of maintaining peace in South America or to treat them as "grown up sisters". Perhaps the latter plan would prove less troublesome. At any rate a new definition of relations is necessary...
...Your presence here is a very impressive demonstration of your desire. I doubt if any of my countrymen would hesitate to assert that if the womanhood of the nation want something they will be bound to secure...
France. Paris viewed the American victory with disdain. French racing men assert uncompromisingly that their three-year-old Epinard is the best horse in the world...
...contemporary composers none is more uniformly applauded, or more deservedly so, than the Finn, Sibelius. His first symphony ripens with age and familiarity; it receives full and adequate expression at the hands of Mr. Monteux. It gives the lie to those who assert that Beethoven or Brahms said all that could be said within the limits of sonata form...
...there such a thing as ether, as the old-school physicists assert and Einstein denies? If so, does the ether fill the universe, absolutely at rest and permeating freely through all material bodies, or does the earth, as it revolves upon its axis, drag the ether with...