Word: surer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer; on his head was a cap with a dome en- circled by hoops of gold. Evidently he was a Marshal of France. The crowd, surer of its ground, instantly recognized the Marshal and the air became thick with Vive le marechal! Five le generalissime...
Puzzles of 1925. It is herewith advanced as a possible topic for debate that, of all the prominent entertainers, Elsie Janis is surest of herself. One could forgive her this if she were surer of her show. She knows that she is good; if she knew how bad her helpers were, she might arrange for alterations...
...there is none, and of antagonizing a friend and benefactor by an impossible severity. If there is wisdom in Washington, the United States will foster the restoration of French finance as the first condition of repayment, and tax reduction at home will be left entirely to the slower but surer policy of retrenchment...
Without any question Count Karolyi is, in the light of unbiased legal evidence, guilty of high treason. Nothing is surer, however, that he acted with the best of intentions; nothing more certain than that he was always the good friend of the Allies and that he ought, therefore, according to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, to be immune from the sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court. But in Hungary, as in most other places, courts of justice are established to carry out the letter and spirit of the law without reference to mitigating sentimental evidence...
Copey's reading makes the weary student realize, in spite of lost classes and cuts, that the holiday is really approaching. There could be no surer presage of festivity than Copey's wholly charming and unstudied fun, for everywhere he arouses a flood of friendly merriment and a feeling of deep, if unspoken love...