Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural enough, since a man's worth in the teaching profession is measured largely by his competence as a scholar. His tutoring ability counts for little. Unfortunately this concern over advancement carries into course teaching as well. New faculty members want to show their lecturing ability and often insist on teaching their full quota of half courses every year--again at the expense of tutorial...
...good of the country, as well as to enable the Administration to make a fresh start in effectuating a contra-MacArthur policy on China [Acheson] should insist on his own retirement, or his transfer to a useful field of endeavor ... It is unfair to the President's overburdened office that he should shoulder the embarrassment of having a Secretary who, far from being an influence, is a drag...
...four-minute mile is an elusive phantom that middle-distance runners have been closely pursuing since Paavo Nurmi set his mark of 4:10.4 in 1923. Some track coaches insist that it is a physical impossibility; others, pointing to the 1945 world record of 4:01.4 set by Sweden's Gunder Haegg, say it will be done eventually. Last week at the Penn Relays, some 40,000 roaring fans at Franklin Field caught a fleeting glimpse of a runner who may be the first to make it a reality. The man: Britain's 22-year-old Roger Bannister...
...American reader may be pardoned, a snort of derision at the phrase "orderly and sensible." Compared to a simple two-and-a-half hour baseball game, a typical three-day cricket match, hedged about with centuries of tradition, does seem far from sensible. The Englishman can only insist that the game is really perfectly rational (if you ignore one or two of the finer points of the rules, and the entire system of nomenclature...
...Still outside the fold, and appealing their case to the National Labor Relations Board: the powerful Screen Actors' Guild and Screen Extras' Guild, who insist that they should have jurisdiction over factors in movies made especially...