Word: reasserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brow beaten and bullied by officials in this country, in our choice of literature, art, political opinions, manners, and dress, that we have unconsciously come to regard as an insurgent whoever rebels against the new tyranny, Cohen, whatever his means and manner, has attempted to reassert our liberties and it is inappropriate. I think, for the CRIMSON or for anyone else to assume an amused and detached attitude toward the slightly ridiculous scuffle in Harvard Square. It is better for our self-respect to protest, instead of smiling when liberties which once meant much to us, are taken away...
...American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon fight or a fight for European or Asiatic markets. No, it is a fight to reassert European, in reality German (the French and English have been duped) supremacy in chemistry and chemical progress and that means German military supremacy. . . . America will never join such a combine. . . . Enlightened American industry, enlightened American opinion and enlightened American legislation will not allow our betrayal...
...unfortunately not easy, and I do not even know that it is possible, to put this sort of appreciation and thankfulness into words. I will only reassert how strongly I feel...
Omitting the religious question--in which Dr. Little takes opportunity to reassert his belief that the youth of today has a deeper and more genuine piety than that of any previous age--one may go straight to the argument concerning admission to the universities. Technical requirements to matriculation have no place in the discussion; Dr. Little has passed them by. What he dwells upon--and with some length--s a little-thought-of phase of the situation. He takes his stand as President of a state supported institution. A humane feeling, unselfish, philanthropic, is the first, one might...
...GOOD-Leonard Merrick-Button ($1.90). Leonard Merrick does only a few things and he always does them in the same way. That he usually manages to give them an original tang is high tribute to his unexcelled craftsmanship. In this book most of the old situations reassert themselves a little over-assiduously. There is the second-rate theatrical troupe an'd its provincial lodging houses. There is poverty-stricken Virtue roaming the London streets for chapters in search of shelter and employment. There is sentiment, barrels of it, verging narrowly on the sugary. But there is more than...