Word: reasserts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view in Manhattan last week served to reassert their stature...
...faith is an optimistic one, for to him, popular government will certainly triumph over any rule of the select or of Supermen. Democracy is a norm to which men, by their nature, will return. Because it is "rooted in the eternal hunger of the race," it will always reassert itself. Again democracy will triumph because, by its very refusal to concentrate on the production of Supermen, by its humility and criticism, it produces greater men than can Fascism...
...overplay its hand in this game of bluff, with dire consequences for the world. Then Britain, France, and even the not-so-isolated United States will have to decide whether to play the role of the Spanish liberals and succomb, or whether steadfastly to deny the word "choose" and reassert "the middle...
...Land of Promise" almost deceives one into believing that the World War was worth fighting. It shows the eager and powerful strides of the Jews to renew the contract between Jehovah and the patriarchs: to take advantage of the British mandatory over Palestine and to reassert their nationality geographically as well as spiritually...
...witness the coarsening of the intellectual fibres of "college" men by the iron heel of crude commercialism, but you have the unmitigated presumption to suggest that we contribute to it. There is no middle road. Either the university must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy, or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded tolerance...