Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Economic Conditions: Irishmen assert that there has not been a major political issue since the settlement of the Irish boundary dispute (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925). The problems and difficulties have mostly been economic. Taxation remains higher than in England; agriculture has been depressed by bad conditions and poor credit; industry suffers from competition in Britain and Northern Ireland and clamors for protection, which, it points out, would ease unemployment...
...averse to a more probable image of their maker. Thus the mad leper sat in Koili-kuntla while thugs prowled about the streets to procure him food and apparel. After two of these thugs robbed and battered a citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly as flowers. Native nolicemen lifted their rifles, pumped bullets toward him, killed seven devotees, then the leper-god himself. His other disciples, astonished...
...against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow...
...Schumann-Heink believes that American men give their women much too much freedom. "American men are undoubtedly the finest I know, but they are cowards in their relations with women! They are afraid of losing them if they assert themselves. That is the state to which our men are dominated by women...
Perhaps it was because they had heard that arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia was coming among them, to fill the sacred shoes ot old-school Dr. Maitland Alexander at the First Presbyterian Church (TIME, Feb. 21). Perhaps they wanted to assert themselves before the younger lion of righteousness arrived, or perhaps to prepare for him a fitting atmosphere of holiness. Or perhaps they were truly indignant with no thought of Pittsburgh as the northern capital of Fundamentaland. Whatever the reason, ten Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last...