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Word: assertively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this airport is the antechamber of the Third Rome, as Russian Orthodox theologians, with a diametrically opposite meaning, used to call Moscow the Golden.* Through it is entered the doctrinal capital of Communism, the fanatical modern faith which holds that man can assert the ultimate potential of his humanity only by denying God and yielding himself wholly to Reason and its instrument, Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Might to Assert Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Jewish terrorism today is the result and not the cause of declining world sympathy. . . . The state of world sympathy is such that might is the only way to assert right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...more relaxed and casual than Nine. His talents, creative and mechanical, assert themselves. His expanding community sense makes Ten receptive to ideas of social justice, group welfare, loyalty. Like Five, Ten is in good equilibrium. But unlike Five, Ten is no longer neuter. There is not much companionship between boys and girls of this age. Anticipating adolescence, they are acutely conscious of sex differences, keep apart by intermittent feuds and separatist truces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five to Ten | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...commend you for taking a firm stand against the flagrant price raising practices currently in vogue. That you have the courage to assert your opposition publicly and boldly is heartening to us who depend on you to defend student interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

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