Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much more than mere instructive discourses. With his large resources of critical knowledge, and his faculty for shrewd comment, he will be able to crowd into each talk material that...
...These assertions are not mere overflowings of excess chauvinism, but are amply backed by grave and portentous reasons. Since 1918 the percentage of Englishmen at Oxford has fallen from 31 to 66 per cent, a drop of nearly twenty degrees. With their increase in numbers, the Americans have begun to "assert themselves in every conceivable direction" so that now the whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans...
...industries in China. But there are no labor laws, there are no restrictions of hours, there are no minimum wage guarantees, there is unblushing exploitation of the labor of children. The pace is set by foreign firms, closely followed by the Chinese employers themselves. One does not need to assert that there is only one side to this question in order to argue the point that herein lies one of China's most serious difficulties for the remainder of the century...
...side of the argument is not to be ignored. Many critics agree that the inevitable result of the latest Allied demands would mulct Germany of every pfennig, destroy the small remaining value of the mark, and open the door for Bolshevism. Their opponents answer with a different suggestion. They assert that the whole affair will sour the Genoa Conference on the hands of Lloyd George, leaving him in disrepute, an opening the way for a triumphant Lenin and Wirth to come forward with counter demands quite in the manner of Stalky himself...
American superficiality and British thoroughness were not illustrated by the recent debate of Bates College with Oxford, as reported in the Gavel, the organ of the intercollegiate honorary society for debaters. The Bates professor who accompanied the American trio does not assert that the Yankees prepared their arguments more fully. But he draws a sharp contrast between their businesslike, precise methods and the longer, more extemporaneous British procedure. The three Americans had carefully dovetailed their arguments. The three Britons each presented an individual point of view, caring nothing for minor inconsistencies. The American debate was based upon a careful brief...