Word: rebut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebut the prevalent wail that man, the individual, has fallen from his former high estate to the status of cog in machine. Historian Van Loon raises considerable doubt as to that former altitude, these present depths. And in a sound exposition of business expansion, Julius Klein recalls that an ancient Periclean law gave each Athenian the right to own five slaves, whereas every inhabitant of the U. S. today has at his disposal the power equivalent of 150 slaves. Human happiness lies in using the machine without worshiping it. Brilliantly, Bertrand Russell predicates the only remedy for science...
Then there was extravagance. The Warrior answered Under-Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, but not so bravely but that Mr. Mills could still rebut with a semblance of conviction. The Warrior's terms as Governor of New York had been costly, perhaps for good reasons. But the Warrior did not restate the reasons. Instead he shifted "blame" to the Republican Legislatures that had voted appropriations under him. It was defensive move Number Five...
...identification but on later conduct of the defendants which indicated "consciousness of guilt". It was the evidence introduced on this question of "consciousness of guilt" which let into the case its disturbing elements. Sacco and Vanzetti could not deny that on their arrest they had acted suspiciously, and to rebut the inference from this behavior they expected at the time to be arrested for another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when...
...Settlement Federation listened to various papers advocating birth control, which one speaker sought to rebut with the pat, laudable, but slightly euphemistic theory that all that was needed was self-control...
...week led the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism to file suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to prevent the Government from paying chaplains attached to the Senate and House and the Army and Navy. The chaplains have had as yet no opportunity to rebut this unexpected attack upon their long-established functionings...