Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy-five percent of all Biology concentrators are pre-meds, but department members insist the field offers more than just a way to meet medical school requirements. Most students in the field agree...
Meanwhile, Archie Falardeau protested the charges of bias. "We insist that his being a fraternity man was not the consideration which led the board to its decision," he said...
...Succeed. When a boy still has trouble, however, Wendell trims his program somewhat ("We do not cut the boy to the cloth"). Nor does he insist that a boy go on to college if he is not qualified. Wendell's way of judging the success of a student is not by his marks, but by how well he competes with himself...
...point still to be settled: the Eighteenth's commander. The airborne's greatest fear is that the job may go to an Air Force general who would insist on treating an airborne operation like an airlift, shuttling planeloads of men and equipment to an airhead on a commuter-train timetable. Airborne officers insist that the intricate job of establishing an airhead in enemy territory requires newer techniques-which must still be developed. Their candidate for the command: Major General Robert W. Douglass, former chief of staff of Air Forces in Europe...
...Entomological purists insist that ladybugs are not true bugs (Hemiptera), but beetles (Coleoptera...