Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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True child of Massachusetts, Harvard is individualistic, skeptical, intellectually venturesome, and inclined to be lax in morale. Yale was founded to counteract its free thinking, to assert the voice of authority, and so we have the ground-gaining Eli. Princeton, largely recruited as of old from the South, avoids extremes in both morality and intellect, inclining to the picaresque...
...winter. A subterranean refuge large enough to allow his automobile to enter and turn freely about has been constructed. And a star-shaped series of radiating trenches and dugouts extending for several miles has made of Targuist a stronghold which the Riffians are reported to consider impregnable. Cables assert that Abd-el-Krim has transported thither his treasures, arms, captives. Apparently Targuist is to replace Ajdir as his capital...
...Trustworthy unofficial despatches have placed this figure between one and two thousand. Insurgent leaders assert that 50,000 periished...
Further reports declare that the Constituent Assembly is expected to be convened within a month. It is regarded as certain that Reza Kahn will then be elected to head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...
...people who declare that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are terms used to distinguish alien faiths, and if they breed at all, their child must be a sterile creature, without pride of parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black and gold...