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Word: assertively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reply, F.C.C. supporters point out that the broadcast frequencies are public property and must be regulated in the public interest. Anyone can found a newspaper, they assert, but the number of broadcasting frequencies is strictly limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of the Airwaves | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...office--Helen Gahagen Douglas of California, John Carroll of Colorado, Jacob Javitts of New York, and Herbert Lehman of New York--claim that the McCarran Act has so many weaknesses that it will do the Communists more good than harm. Backers of the Act assert that to oppose it implies weak tolerance of the Communists if not outright sympathy with them...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...opposing any new federal health legislation whatsoever--including Republican bills for aid to voluntary associations. At the same time, the Association has reported that only 20 percent of the public can meet the cost even of minor illnesses without outside help. For the other four-fifths, the doctors assert, present organizations for voluntary insurance are sufficient...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: AMA: III | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Last Call for Europe | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Before 1865, the College was considerably less independent than it has been since, and the state archives are full of pamphlets in which Harvard was trying to assert itself...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Poll Shows General Court's Views on Harvard | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

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