Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardy, mentally alert subscribers want this crutch? Does Subscriber Kastner shoot squirrels with a shotgun? Does he, hale and hearty, insist on eating only predigested foods? Does he wear water-wings when swimming? Does he use a bushel basket for a baseball glove...
...lies in the fact that very few men can afford the time necessary to secure an A.M. before entering the professional schools. Naturally such a course of study would appeal most, as well as olier the greatest value to those intending to become instructors. But as long as universities insist upon the Ph.D., as the indispensable credential for membership in their faculties, the broader curriculum suggested by Mr. Griffin will have no place in the teacher's preparation...
...have endured your repetition and misuse of "able" and "famed" long enough! I shall not cancel my subscription, as so many of your disgusted readers seem to do. Instead, I shall insist that you send me every last one of the 21 copies which are due me on my present subscription. When I receive them I shall use them as waste paper, lighters for my pipe, wipers for my razor...
Answer: The bankers deny any plans of consolidation; insist the corporation is purely an investment trust and legal...
...narrowly defined the limits of human impartiality. The Herald, in its humanitarian righteousness, applied the title, "an, orgy of wasteful spending", to a reception given on Monday by Lady Londonderry. This would seem to be a gross exaggeration in as much as Lady Londonderry's guests, politely or no, insist that "there was scarcely anything to be had except lemonade and sandwiches" and that "you were extremely fortunate if you got anywhere near the buffet". These laments incontrovertibly reveal the bitter truth that there was not even enough...