Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their old cars for a new Ford...
...Workers' Union to tie up shipping on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast ports, is that it is being run by the I. W. W. From all reports the strike itself is a failure: San Francisco, Seattle, San Pedro, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other big shipping centers assert that their vessels are hardly affected...
...America has always been and should continue to be a friend to all nations", said Admiral Benson. "In order to continue to exert our powerful influence for good, we must be in a position to assert ourselves. We should abhor force, but we must be ready for what may come...
...assert that more has been done in the three years since the League of Nations came into existence for putting an end to that terrible evil, the trade in noxious drugs, than had been done for 50 years before the League of Nations came into being. And I assert that with almost equal speed conventions have been agreed upon through the instrumentality of the League which will really, I hope, put a spoke in the wheel of those devilish beings who carry on the white slave traffic...
...assert that the League has been the means of settling several grave international disputes. I assert that in settling those disputes the League has shown a high impartiality, not hesitating to decide if justice was required in favor of the weaker rather than the stronger of the disputants. I assert that the League's recommendations-and remember that the League only proceeds by recommendations, never by force-have been accepted in almost every ease...