Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar limitations might also be used to illustrate the principle involved. This comment should not be taken as a reflection on all conditional gifts on even on most of them to do so would be not only to look into the mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability of a generous gift...
...this statement, there lies the fallacy that the exercise of thousands is found in watching the contest of a hundred or less through a series of sedentary Saturday afternoons in the fall. It is an old story now to insist, for all the excitement and tradition that is bound up in November battles, that intramural sports should have been substituted for the word football in the two statements of Major Griffith, but it is an insistence that has gained tremendous strength at Harvard, and is finding a still precarious place at other colleges...
...note made it clear that France would and does insist that the most-favored-nation treatment can be accorded to the U. S. only if the U. S. is willing to give reciprocal treatment to France...
...hurt. Last week some gas merchants held a convention in Chicago and one of their honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort ran down and hurt two women in the crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened with pride to earsplitting, mile-a-minute escorts for Roman Catholic cardinals...
...boils down to whether you go to a Shakespere performance to see a good play produced in such a way as to afford you a good evening's entertainment or whether you insist upon seeing the same play done in such wise that it is thoroughly tedious, and disturbing, all in its atempts to be horribly classical. If you belong to the former school of theatregoers, there is absolutely no reason why you should not have a most pleasant evening at the Arlington Theatre: if you are of the latter type, the chances are very strong that Mr. Leiber...