Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assert that an increase in tariff of a cent a pound causes an advance of 6 to 8 cents a pound in the price of sugar is to give utterance to clotted nonsense...
American naval experts assert that we should not violate even the spirit of the document in increasing the angle of our guns. Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is sure that to do so would be a grievous violation of our good faith. The President himself must make the final decision. Three factors will probably be involved: 1) Whether the change is a violation of the treaty in spirit or letter; 2) Whether it would have undesirable consequences in the attitude of foreign nations to us; 3) Whether it would have any military value if Great Britain...
...There is a certain, indefinite, indescribable quality that the experienced amateur possesses that the professional by necessity loses. And that something is often a desirable thing. It is particularly so when an ensemble playing that shows no professional stress on the individual is achieved. It would be ridiculous to assert that the two plays are in every case played better or as well as they would be in the hands of professionals. But it is sound to say that the general playing, the stress on the play as the prime object of interest, and the cooperative work...
ILLINOIS: A conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...
...terms of literal equality with men, would abrogate nearly all the rights and immunities that women have won in industry, in domestic relations, and as child-bearers, after a continuous struggle of half a century. Women leaders opposed to the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into chattel slavery-a slavery dictated not by the superior authority of men, as formerly, but by the logic of economic...