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Word: insist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simultaneous Varsity game will enable all Jayvee men to be on hand for the Freshman tilt, but both Jayvee coach Lloyd Harper and Berg still insist that their respective squads cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee, Yardling Nines Meet Today | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

...tactics of the Harvard Club in the current dispute leave little question that an attempt is being made to break the union. It seems to me a disgrace to the College that an organization affiliated with it should act as spearhead in such a movement or should insist on its God-given right to pay as little as 60 cents an hour for human labor in a city where wage rates and the cost of living are the highest in the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Analyzes Harvard Club Strike | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...four principles in the transaction are scheduled to appear in the HTW production of "Richard II," but they insist that their new connection with the Brattle Theater will in no way affect these plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTW Men Buy Brattle Hall Theater | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

...Communist Viennese by what the press delicately calls "one of the occupying powers" have recently risen to the rate of one a week. Sounding somewhat like an anxious mother telling her children not to take candy from strangers, Austria's Ministry of the Interior last week counseled: 1) insist on seeing the badge of any agent who approaches you claiming to be a policeman; 2) do not enter any car unless the agent in charge is a legitimate policeman; 3) leave your name, the name of the agent and the number of his car with a third person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Candy from Strangers | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...present day wherein man is asked to submit his individuality to the will and fancy of gigantic organizations. Genuine and healthy liberty can be only that of men who, feeling themselves solidly bound together in a team to ensure a good social economy, acquire the right to insist on its guarantee and protection without violation of individual liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life & Liberty | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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