Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following day, a Socialist motion for a vote of lack of confidence, because the Government's "conciliatory foreign policy" was sure to be changed by its tendency toward the Right Parties, which were in disagreement with it, was defeated 214 to 219. Twenty-five deputies did not vote...
...through the freely expressed will of the German people. I believe, in fact, that Hindenburg's election will prove a stabilizing influence in post-War Germany." Pan-Germanism. "I cannot at this point help referring to German propaganda in favor of the annexation of Austria. I am sure the Senate agrees with me that such a flagrant violation of existing treaties cannot be countenanced." Russia. "What we have seen can fill us with joy, for we have seen that Communist experiment has totally failed, because Communism, which tends to level all men down, is opposed to life...
Where Death stalked last week in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, he lacked his usual retinue. Gone from their mortuary parlors were the head morticians. They had entrusted to their apprentices and assistants the silk hats and sleek black coats which they, of all men, are sure to wear on weekdays. They, the master embalmers, had flocked in holiday host to the offices of the Chicago Casket Co. to discuss this whole business of snatching a living from the grave...
...hair and warm blood like other animals. He produces young in the same way. He suffers from the same poisons as do the great apes, and from diseases similar to theirs. He is even preyed upon by similar lice and fleas. He differs in degree, to be sure, from other animals, but not in kind. And those animals set down as his nearest relatives are more and more nearly like him in these respects. Indeed, there is less anatomical difference between man and the higher apes than between the higher apes and the lowest monkeys. 2) Ontogeny (life history...
...small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming for the defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England's H. G. Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made...