Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue, the November Advocate conceals under pseudonyms the authorship of its two most controversial offerings. About the identity of "Richard Caxton", who writes "The Bloody Shirt, World-War Model", and "William Breaksbread" and "Kid Marlow", authors of "The Rally", an uninitiate reviewer had better hazard no guesses. He can assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University, are far distant from...
...after flaying the Republicans for their failure to reorganize the Governmental machinery as in 1921 they promised): "The administration spokesman answers only: 'We have given an economical administration,' and that has been repeated so often that some people begin to believe it without the slightest proof. I assert that there is no proof...
...over all the dwellings inhabited by students of the College. Whether or not it is desirable for undergraduates to live in definite proximity to other undergraduates is possibly a debatable question. It would be dangerous for a University which boasts the promotion of individuality as its salient care to assert that its members should form associations other wise than as they please. It can hardly, however, be denied that the protection afforded students by a College inspection of living conditions in the buildings open to them is of distinct value. Harvard has long conducted periodic investigation of dormitories and boarding...
...majority of the newspapers twitted it. Said the New York World: "The rival coaches assert the brains of their champions are in the pink of condition...
...course, the Americana hunters who make their own gentility dubious by an inordinant desire to assert the vulgarity of mob pleasures, can and do challenge the intelligence of endurance contests. The rival show, put on by local patriots, which sent Dawes and Revere over their courses again, was much better costumed and much less attended. It is admitted that a man might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first...