Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lastly Señor Tijerīno; (whose statement to the press was in the form of an open letter to Senator Henrik Shipstead*) declared...
Cleopatra discusses everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
Both Harvard and Yale men have overapplied for tickets for the Crimson Eli boat race this year, it became known yesterday through a statement of C. F. Getchell, ticket manager of the Harvard Athletic Association. Over 100 Harvard men who applied will be unable to secure seats on the observation trains...
...question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...
...modernize the statement and to make it true to the present day would have to put it something like this: "The typewriter is mightier than poison gas." The facts which this illustrates are only too true. The art of writing is fast becoming a lost art in our modern civilization; while the days when the sword was regarded as the symbol of battle have even more completely disappeared...