Word: surer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allow questions to jurors as to racial or religious prejudices. We think it would be far more injurious to permit it to be thought that persons entertaining disqualifying prejudice were allowed to serve as jurors and inquiries designed to elicit the fact of this disqualification were barred. No surer way could be devised to bring the processes of justice into disrepute. . . . Despite the privileges accorded to the Negro, we do not think it can be said that the possibility of such prejudice is so remote as to justify the risk of forbidding the inquiry. And this risk becomes most grave...
There was no surer way of rousing rage. Australians disagree among themselves about almost everything (State jealousy has given the Dominion three separate railway gauges) but they have in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with...
...FOOTNOTE* Depression-conscious, too, is a current series of Arrow Collars advertisements. To the jobless they hint that jobs come easier to the man in a stiff collar. To the employed they hint that the man in a stiff collar is more pleasing to his employer, surer...
Upshot of the President's outburst was that the World, which paid $12,000 for the Kelley articles, seemed surer than ever to get what it professed to desire most-a Congressional investigation of the whole matter...
...that the Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...