Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
Will you be so very kind as to contradict the "faulty memory" you attribute to me, please...
Ordinarily I'd just hate to contradict TIME, but this time I just know you're wrong...
...colleges in a time of financial crisis to contribute to unemployment relief it is not for the colleges to object and point out that such a duty is not within their province. They can, however, refuse to comply with the suggested methods for raising money if these methods contradict their educational policy. Harvard has done this thing in refusing to allow its football team to play in any post-season charity game...
...obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato's, is one who has a passion for doing sums, but being a pure mathematician, is quite indifferent as to what the sums are about. . . . Eddington and Jeans contradict each other, and . . . both contradict the biological theologians, but all agree that in the last resort science should abdicate before what is called the religious consciousness. This attitude is regarded by themselves and by their admirers as more optimistic than that of the uncompromising rationalist. It is, in fact, quite...