Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...
...function of the newspaper is primarily to report what the leading scientists do and say. If they contradict each other, and there is confusion, the newspapers merely picture the confusion and do not create...
...Defense handwriting experts will contradict those of the prosecution...
...initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict you. Time and again I have seen Mr. Schuster vote for the acceptance of a book which offered no promise of money, but which seemed to him a work of art deserving of the light of print; Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance may serve as instances. Mr. Schuster...
...This is a solid achievement to the credit of the international wheat agreement!" cried genial John I. McFarland, manager of the Canadian Wheat Pool. Other delegates saw no reason to contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage...