Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's school is modeled on a course originated in 1937 by Manhattan's Maternity Center Association* and since adopted by several other cities. The schools, generally deploring news pictures of grinning males fumbling with diapers, insist that their purpose is to turn out better fathers, not mediocre substitute mothers. Washington graduates will receive diplomas bestowing the title of Prepared Parent...
That drastic action can only take the form of federal aid. But college administrators insist that the federal help should have no strings of federal control. The aid should be in the form of 1) "selected" draft deferments; 2) priority on surplus commodities they can use for buildings and equipment; 3) direct grants based chiefly on losses of peacetime enrollment; 4) longterm, low-interest loans; 5) contracts for adult extension courses and research; 6) a federal scholarship fund...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
...Many insist that if you can only find out on what days the stores receive their stock, you can beat the game. At any rate, you will probably be able to use the general counsel offered by one who considers himself a veteran. "When you walk into a store and see a sign in the negative, don't believe it. Be wily, be crafty; never become discouraged." "And," he concludes sagely, "never let them know you're a Harvardman...
...From the beginning of this campaign I have insisted that organization for world peace can and must be a bipartisan effort. I shall continue to insist on that approach...