Word: aver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
Deelaring that the great intellects of the past have been almost all Christian believers and that "the intellectual quest ends in God," Dean Matthews said "the majority of great modern thinkers would aver the decisive words...
Hall in all, Says says by fourth Courter score will be 27-13 Orr Elser he's wrong. Hall-ett may be, who knows--if We-aver get Cohen...
...friends . . . may think we have had an overdose of proximity with the famous Roosevelt personality. It is fine to be able to report that the President is in great fettle, hale and hearty, imbued with confidence, cheerful and relaxed, enjoying life and his big job to the fullest. We aver that our opinions are based upon broad observations. . . . But we can't deny that we are also influenced by the calm confidence of the President. He isn't selling the country short, and neither...
...letter encloses a list of opportunities, and the managers aver that they will be "glad to discuss with you personally any of these opportunities, and wish to assure you that an interview puts you under no obligations whatever...