Word: averments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been amply justified...
...your description of the supposed death of Prince Abdul Kadir, Page 13, under "Turkey," you aver that "too much water in the lungs was the cause of his demise...
Roman Catholic prelates often aver that no Cardinal desires to be Pope. If, as the world insists, Merry del Val was an exception to this rule, it is also probable that he now says the rule was wise. For surely the after-middle-years would have been robbed of all felicity had Merry del Val labored, as Pope, to be as great as he has been Cardinal...
...records of la mairie d'Aigues-Vives (Mayor's office in small village in the Department of Ariège) aver that M. Doumergue was christened Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston. His family have apparently been Calvinists (Protestants) since the 16th Century, when the Picardian Jean Calvin caused a commotion by publishing his Institutio Christianae religionis...
...tennis sovereigns are becoming solicitous over their subject's literary activities. Amateur tennis players, they aver, should not gain from the game by authorship. Ceteris verbis, tennis players will probably be forbidden the right of contributing to magazines for money. So swollen is the trade apparently that certain of the stars are supporting themselves thereby. They are commercial athletes if not professional...