Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another fight "a sturdy Quaker" "We utterly deny all outward wars for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever," a testimony issued in 1660 has been followed consistently by an unbroken succession of such declarations through all wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying, "No, no, no, I'm no Quaker I" In view of his recent action he was quite right. To be born in a Quaker county like Chester County, Pa., does...
Sirs: Some time ago TIME stated in a footnote that the New Safety Stutz car was reputed to have the most powerful stock car motor (92 H. P.) in the United States. Some time afterward Mr. W. M. Baldwin wrote you taking exception to the statement, since, as he stated, the Fierce-Arrow Dual Valve Six will develop "more than...
...Such a statement seems to be on a feminine bias, to indicate that the Vassar regime emphasizes too heavily the leadership of wives, while husbands are simply taught to be 'better...
...Further statement of the physical powers of the authorities appears in the statement that "notwithstanding ye pecuniary Mulcts, it shall be lawful for ye President, Tutors or Professors to punish Undergraduates by Boxing, when they shall judge ye nature or circumstances of ye offence call...
Dean C. N. Greenough made the following statement to the committee: "Men who go out for the Red Book will have a pleasant errand which naturally extends their acquaintance among their classmates. Some of these acquaintances will become friends. Moreover, work for the Red Book is something done for the class, for undoubtedly a good Red Book helps to make a united class...