Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outspoken in his criticism of methods of teaching which were ruled by a series of changing fashions. "It too often has been true that a new and worthwhile method of legal analysis, such as that of Hohfeld, has become a final gospel for others, and that those outlanders who insist upon their independence have been regarded for the time being as passe...
...commission sent by His Majesty's Government to buy Canadian and U. S. bombing planes. In London up went yelps from Capital & Labor, for neither of these British groups can view with equanimity any other system than that they both should profit from Rearmament to the limit, insist that it be "All British." His Majesty's Government were flooded with complaints from employers and employes all heading up to blaming Air Secretary Viscount Swinton for the British aircraft industry's "muddles and delays...
...Shaw's and Claude Hopkins' orchestras have been hired for the only formal Freshman dance in the college year. There will be continuous dancing from nine until three. The Jubilee Committee has not planned any intermissions, but for those couples that insist on dancing all evening there will be ample refreshments to cool them...
...organization in the field should be accompanied by reorganization at home. To set his house in order, Dr. Gummere should insist on the centralization of his department and the close co-operation of other officers of the University. The advice of the Hygiene Department, important but not all-important, should be kept in check and balanced against other considerations. From the various Deans he should receive records enabling him to judge schools by their past graduates. If it is decided that men not associated with the University can be of help, Phillips Brooks House should be educated in Harvard...
...square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry "monkey drill," a blind jumping...