Word: gainsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the clock struck midnight on November fourth, America had spoken and Roosevelt had been swept back into office by the mightiest tidal wave of popular opinion ever expressed in the United States. That he was the man of the hour was undeniable and no one tried to gainsay it. Instead, all: Republicans and Democrats, Socialists and radicals, the mighty, friend and foe alike, joined in tribute to the man and his magnificent victory. It was his minute, his moment of glory...
...dismissed with laughter. I showed him worth by folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed- (Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment if he erred, And-outboard-ocean waiting to betray him. VIII "Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in duty held him bound, So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself...
...Wells' fancy to picture the world of one-hundred and eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars for the 1940's, complete breakdown of all trade in the sixties, the consequent reduction of all peoples to a semi-savage state, and the rescue of the populations from this distress by aviators...
...acquisitiveness, science rather than mythology, realism rather than ritualism, will, I suspect, have a large part. They wish to start fresh. And the generation just ahead of them has not so much to be proud of in what it has made of the world that it should wish to gainsay them in their own new deal...
...foreign student important enough to academic society to warrant letting him loose among possible jobs to the detriment of the unprotected American citizen? Certainly even those who fell most remotely international cannot gainsay the importance of the leavening influence in international relations of this year by year interchange of students. This influence should surely increase in years to come...