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Word: affirming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...went on to review Willkie's aims and promises, to affirm that Wendell Willkie could and would keep his promises. They heard of a promise which had not been previously heralded: that Wendell Willkie would give labor full representation in his Government; of "a reasonable hope" that three pro-Willkie, hitherto antiC. I. O. steelmakers (Grace, Girdler, Weir) "will soon execute collective-bargaining contracts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis to His Countrymen | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Such notices have to be posted every 17 years, Durant explained, in order to affirm the University's title. Otherwise, after a certain period of time the state may claim that the title has lapsed through public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POSTS REAL ESTATE TO AVOID PUBLIC EASEMENT | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...true that we are still allowed to reply to criticism. When we are accused of schoolboy skepticism, we can affirm our faith in democracy and freedom. We question the efficiency of a means, not the validity of those ends. We can still maintain that our disillusionment is only in war as an instrument of democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAND UP AND CHEER | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

Coming at the same time as a petition signed by 300 members of the College to affirm his appointment, the letter states that "the organized attack upon the appointment . . . . is a challenge to all Americans who cherish the principle of intellectual and cultural freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATORS DEFEND BERTRAND RUSSELL | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Ethel Turp Call on the President (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This appealing little picture, which aims to affirm the democratic dogma, implies some things its creators never intended. One of them is that to call on the President is one of the last things a U. S. Turp ever would or should think of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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