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Word: sureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan with a number of undergraduates and find the opinion of those at all informed on the subject to be almost universally favorable. The rejection, by a college referendum, of the student council proposal of the House Plan two years ago would not have occurred, I feel sure, had the matter been sufficiently understood. The fact that the leaders in undergraduate life, then as now, favored such a proposal may surely be regarded as indicative of the support of the thinking student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Opposition to House Plan Unfounded Says Williams | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

Professor Cabot argued that monopolies provide their own competition and thus are forced to keep their prices down. If an organization having a monopoly over a certain industry tries to charge rates that are too high, the public will be sure to find a cheaper substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOMAS AND CABOT ENGAGE IN DEBATE | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...others from which the whole of American life most acutely suffers, it is timidity--should one say, the entire absence?--of minority opinion. Yet so needful is minority opinion to the health of democratic institutions that it should be encouraged at all costs. Where everybody thinks alike, there, be sure, is mental stagnation and spiritual death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

Quite as gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself?at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alive Enough | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Joseph knew nothing of pigmentation or the chemistry of .colors. He had pronounced on the Lardoux painting without seeing either the painting itself or -a photograph. Once he stated his dou'bt that the Louvre Belle was by Leonardo, then he retracted and said he was sure of it. He could not find hatching strokes on the Lardoux portrait which he claimed to have seen eight years before; he apologized for his failing eyesight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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