Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity of the U.S. steel industry enough for an expanding economy? In the debate on this question, steel industry spokesmen, while conceding that there are now shortages in supply, maintain that their capacity is sufficient for the long pull. Assorted critics, ranging from Government economists to ideological warriors, insist that unless 10 to 20 million additional tons of capacity are built, depression may result...
...Connie Mack's bushy-browed face rises like an ostrich's out of a high stiff collar. He could retire tomorrow as baseball's Grand Old Man, but prefers to remain an active and highly controversial figure. Four-fifths of Philadelphia fans insist that he is the greatest manager in baseball; some of the remaining fifth contend that he is a penny-pinching old Scrooge who trades shamelessly on the incorrigible loyalty of Athletics fans. His detractors say that he profitably broke up his great teams of 1910-14 and 1929-32 because Philadelphia fans, with only...
Many of his boys, though in their teens, can hardly read or write when they arrive. That doesn't bother Starr, but he does insist on an I.Q. of at least 90. Most kids stay about two years: Starr believes that it is as bad to stay too long as to leave too soon ("They get over-institutionalized"). He thinks it easier to influence a boy at 17 or 18 than at twelve...
...Last, we have a right to insist that [our schools] inspire a reverence for the Unseen. Americans will never be mature if all they recognize as real are the things of this and now, as long as they deal forever with what and never...
Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...