Word: insist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long been a source of irritation to Asiatic nations that some countries insist upon excluding their nationals because they belong to the yellow race. To avoid exclusion of Japanese because of this there exists today a gentleman's agreement between Japan and the United States that Japan will not allow her laborers to come to this country, and it must be said that this agreement has honestly been kept. The arrangement does not establish race equality; it merely postpones the issue...
...case of rain a special program will be put into effect. It has been found necessary to insist that all persons entering the Yard after 2 P. M. shall have Yard tickets; no exception whatever will be made to this rule. The dancing in the Union Class Day evening will be strictly informal...
...whole Regiment has had but a few opportunities to drill since the return of fine weather. More and more we shall insist on that point, and everybody in the Corps will be eager to do his best in order that the Harvard R. O. T. C. may maintain and deserve its reputation...
...discipline which will beat the Huns, but which is very hard to get," said Colonel Applin, in his address to the R. O. T. C. last evening, in the New Lecture Hall. "The trouble with your organization is that your officers and non-commissioned officers do not insist on the small details and will not be able, later on, to insist on the large ones. You must make your men obey instantly, like the 'click...
...cannot learn to be a little more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured a German patrol of twenty, while...