Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announced Publisher McLean: "I will go any limit to get my freedom. I have married Miss Douras Van Cleve and will do anything to have that marriage legally recognized in the U. S. courts. ... I swear I will go anywhere to get legal freedom...
...Rumors that Moscow is helping me," he continued, "must be due to the fact that while I was Chief of Police of the Town of Sakhalin-Ula I used to dine twice a year with the Soviet officials. I can swear that no foreigners have given or are giving me guns, munitions, supplies or money! I want the League of Nations to fulfill its duty. I want it to force the Japanese to withdraw from Northern Manchuria. If I am forced to abandon Tsitsihar I intend to retire into the back country...
When a flock of teal or broadbill flares past, most duck gunners would swear- especially if they have missed their shots- that the birds were moving 75 to 100 m. p. h. Last week May Thacher Cook, junior biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, braved duck gunners' indignation. She announced that wild fowl speeds had been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts...
...hundreds of Chinese cities and towns, patriots routed out the whole community to swear such mighty oaths as this (sworn by all students and teachers in the schools of Nanking, Chinese capital...
...Before the blue sky, before the white sun, before our fatherland, before the graves of our ancestors, we, faculty and students, solemnly swear as long as we live never to use anything made by Japanese. Should we break this oath, may Heaven and men kill...