Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Science. Huxley's answer to the argument that science is insufficient to man's needs and aspirations is to demand more science: "When men assert that the scientific approach is incomplete it is because they have not been willing to follow it to its final conclusion, or because they are mistaking an early stage in its growth for full development...
...time the Constitution had been ratified, Americans were racing to Europe to assert the superiority of their institutions. The Beards do not stress the audacity of this intellectual aggression. They do not need to. The words speak for themselves. The old distinctions of American thinkers into Federalists and Democrats, agrarians, mercantilists, industrialists, capitalists lose importance in the face of united insistence abroad on the superiority, the inevitable future growth of America. Not only Jefferson, John Adams and Tom Paine were united in this. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General during part of the Revolution, calmly declared after it that two-thirds...
...think I am overstating to assert that if our Government had gone through with the terms of the National Defense Act of June 4, 1920,*it is quite possible that we would not be involved in this terrible situation of today. There was laid down in the law a very comprehensive plan for the military security of the United States. I cannot believe that the German War Party would have dared to become involved in a war to which we were to be a party...
...Action. Precisely because he writes as a layman for laymen, Lawyer John Foster Dulles' paper is of special importance. He says: "There are those who assert that during war our thoughts should be of nothing beyond military victory and that the Christian virtues should be laid aside and dependence placed upon primitive emotions. The demand that Christians thus choose between Christ and State is one that can be and must be rejected. To reject it involves no disloyalty to State, for what we are seeking for the American people is nothing that will prove a weakness. Our purpose...
...attitude of the University toward us has been characteristically open-minded," assert officials of the Harvard Pacifist Association, which consists of 14 men who believe that war in itself is wrong and whose conscience permits them no part in the war effort. The group meets weekly for comradeship and discussion...