Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Miss Lois Delander, Miss America, when interviewed by a News representative recently. "I have been having the best time in New Haven and I think the boys here are so much nicer than college people other places. No, I haven't been to Boston yet, but I am sure the fellows there couldn't give me as nice a time...
During the past season the 1928 football leader alternated at halfback and quarterback, proving himself a star in the lateral pass plays in which his fleetness of foot and a sure pair of hands stood him in good stead...
...return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality of the so-called Walsh Law under which the confiscation was made. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, the law's author, and one of the originators of the whole oil investigation, declared he was sure his law would withstand Supreme Court scrutiny; announced his intention of introducing to Congress another law, to compel just such reluctant witnesses as Mr. Blackmer* to testify willy-nilly- when they can be caught before they leave...
...year after year the acanthus and asphodel sprout above him, Leonidas may have doubted the efficacy of his defence. To be sure, poets have sung him in their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He doubts no more. A scintillating triumph has jarred the semi-fossilized bones in their subterraneous abode. For yesterday, the will of a deceased Camden, New Jersey, real estate agent disclosed a sum of $5000 to be devoted to the erection of a fitting and lasting memorial in King Leonidas' home town...
...Thompson, college editors and the slightly envious press agents of the eastern mayors to the contrary, is not a complete fool. His slogan is obviously, "praise me or damn me, but be sure to mention my name", and there is little doubt that all the maligning he receives in the public press will do more than increase his plurality in the next Chicago election. Politics and publicity are synonymous, and the easiest way to attain the latter is by insulting the intelligentsia and amusing the thinking minority. Harrying the agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking...