Word: surer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington friends see less of him than they once did. Now his appearance is neat, his hair always in place. He sees fewer farmers, more farm leaders. He still loves to argue, using his old questioning form of argument. Now he is surer that he is right, but his patience is abundant. If Roosevelt and Wallace win, Henry Wallace, more than any other man, would be conscious of the weight that would fall upon his shoulders if anything should happen to the President, whom he regards as indispensable...
...editorial on Friday, May 31, attacking President Conant's speech you stated that "there is no surer way to war, and a terribly destructive one, than to arm as we are doing." This point of view seems to overlook the very valuable lesson of England's experience during the last decade. In no other country was this idea that armaments are the prime cause of war more firmly held. Lord Grey's statement in 1914--"the enormous growth of armaments in Europe, the sense of insecurity and fear caused by there, it was these that made war inevitable"--was quoted...
...beyond that, Mr. Conant is contradicting himself, for no national policy is more thoroughly motivated by fear of war than the very preparedness program he supports. He admits that its object is to make us secure. But in this hope, he is misled. There is no surer way to war, and a terribly destructive one, than to arm as we are doing. In effect, we are at war with Germany already, practically committed to fight her openly in case of an Allied defeat. Already Walter Lippmann is calling for sacrifices for "defense" that are no different from those demanded...
...Harvard Physics and Medical Departments are constantly experimenting with more and surer applications of these artificially radioactive elements to the treatment of such diseases as Leukemia and Hodgkins' disease...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish...