Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very important kind of service is that of carrying goods from the exporting to the importing country. If we insist on carrying our own goods ourselves, we thereby cut down, by just so much. Europe's ability to pay. What she cannot pay for, she will not buy. So every dollar that we pay American ships for freight charges results in a dollar less of exports for our manufacturers. What the ship owners gain, the business firms lose...
...work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind an astonished public that they once were of the company of wits...
...governments of all the great European states, represents a coalition of elements that are naturally opposed one to another. Any such government lives a precarious life, but the present government is as good as any that Germany is likely to have in the near future. If the Allies insist on a change they are likely to get worse...
...Boston. The convention, after expressing its sympathy for Ireland and the cause of the "Irish Republic", proceeded to demand the court-martial of Admiral Sims because of "his abuse of official position and misrepresentation of the Irish cause"; to agree upon a boycott of English goods in America; to insist that Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador, be recalled for attempting to "dictate the policy and government of our people"; and to demand full payment of England's war debt to the United States...
...rather I believe I am acquainted with her terrible grammar. As a matter of fact, personally, I am very much against vers libnre and all that sort of thing. Of course I admit Walt Whitman was a very great man; but I insist that metre is not an unnatural thing, but an extremely natural thing, like the sing-song of a child, you know, kicking his heels against a wall...