Word: attestations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deceived amateur will need airing; it will be learned that instead of the Saturday Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from his dilemma; and his convictions will attest that native ability is foreign as an aid in meeting the requirements of the "Generals". Sumner Moskovitz...
...music loving man, and I would like to bid on so excellent a likeness of the greatest of contemporary musical financiers. I shall expect you, if you do offer this sketch for sale, to respect the "vested rights" of a "regular buyer," which my newsdealer will readily attest that...
...Cambridge and compared them with similar institutions in or near Europe. It had been hitherto assumed that this phase of American architecture was a product of the Catholic revival of the twentieth century, but such hasty conclusions must now be discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century. Henceforth we must antedate the permanent colonization of the so-called New World by at least a hundred years, unless we blind ourselves to such minute and convincing proofs as these...
...life in service to the Russian people: he interpreted their struggle in an unprejudiced way that carned for him the esteem of all Russia. The fact that he is the only American buried outside the Kremlin in Moscow, and the John Reed Memorial non the banks of the Volga attest to the place he holds in Russia's heart...
...Ever since 1916, Yale has opened the season with bright prospects, good material, and the applause of Eastern sporting editors...Black Novembers attest the futility of pre-season triumphs...