Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those sniffers who insist that the politician and the intellectual are at opposite poles of humanity, the nominations for the approaching senatorial election in Connecticut will come as a severe shock. The Republican nominee is Professor Bingham of Yale, whose title is almost a guarantee of his mental superiority. The Democratic nomince is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Neither of them is a mere theorist, however, for they have both engaged enthusiastically in the rough and tumble of political controversies...
...began to sizzle. No word that could in any way be called ungentlemanly was uttered; yet the situation was tense; and the delegates strained forward as Mr. Campbell scrambled to his feet to insist that he had only stated facts in his former speech...
...swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident ended amicably. I believe, through the coolheadednes of a French referee. There are times when every athlete. revering to type-and no one can understand the experience so well as mother athlete himself; which is why I insist that too much emphasis has been laid on such reversions by the men-athletic audience...
...greatest menace to the public safety," he said when intervewed yesterday, at the State House, "are those drivers who insist in passing and re-passing cars, without ever staying in line. They not only risk their own and other people's lives but they actually slow down traffic. We do not anticipate much trouble on either Friday or Saturday morning. What we do fear is Saturday night, when a great many sleepy and perhaps drunken drivers will be striving to beat each other back to Boston. The drunken drivers, if caught, will be dealt with very severly...
...those who believe there will be a next war and for those who insist there must not, this evening's symposium will be a rare opportunity. The increased destructiveness of war, through the application of science to the business of killing, is ever-present to the popular imagination: yet its present scope and future possibilities are but vaguely realized. Doctor Hall, whose researches have extended into the trenches as well as the laboratory, will explain the scientist's part in any future conflict...