Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, March 21 ... "The California Supreme Court handed down a verdict. . . ." Ho! Ho! Only juries arrive at verdicts. Supreme courts reach decisions, then affirm, modify or reverse judgments of inferior courts, except in such cases in which they have original jurisdiction; utilize juries at no stage in their procedure and at no time "hand down verdicts." IRVING HILL Editor...
...terrestrial phenomena, including the earth's weather and magnetic field, but beyond that not many scientists have ventured. Thus it means more when one scientist with impeccable credentials declares that sunspots may have a physiological and emotional influence on mankind than when a thousand astrologers and other cultists affirm flatly that they...
...poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special pains to affirm it. He had already pronounced: "It is I who decide...
Reason why the Church puts its trust in the Rightists: "The Church, in danger of perishing totally at the hands of Communism . . . feels herself protected by a power which until now has guaranteed the fundamental principles of all society. . . . We affirm that the war has not been undertaken to build up an autocratic state over a humiliated nation, but simply that the national spirit should arise with the strength and the Christian liberty of older times...
...President Roosevelt's steel mediators, the conference was able to agree that the Church was as responsible as any for "economic rivalry" and "inequalities of opportunity," since her complacency had alienated masses of people from Christianity. On Peace the conference, speaking for world Protestantism, could only affirm that Peace is the Christian way, without endorsing extreme pacifism or praising the man who takes up arms for his country. To Europeans confused by relations between Church & State, the World Conference said firmly: "We do not consider the State as the ultimate source of law, but rather as its guarantor...