Word: surest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surest defense of democratic institutions is the conviction of the citizens that life in a democracy is preferable to life under any other form of government," the petition concludes...
...exhibits a homogeneity of sentiment grossly unrepresentative of the division of opinion in the community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
Most memorable passage in an otherwise pedestrian speech: "The only way we are going to stop spending is to stop paying out money, and the surest way of preventing the paying out of money is not to appropriate the money to be paid...
...Democracy, to be lasting, must serve human needs; therefore, the Student Union thoroughly supports the President's aims in expanding the Social Security program. Relieving economic and social distress is the surest way to provent any unrest that might endanger our traditional American form of government...
Both Ross and Daughaday did well on the team last year, the latter placing third in the Eastern, and they are the surest bets this year...