Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart Man. In heart cases particularly, many doctors insist on prolonged rest in bed. But Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison, a heart specialist of Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, said this was just a newfangled notion. He cited the cases of two famous physicians-Sir James Mackenzie, "the father of modern cardiology" (1853-1925), and John Hunter (1728-93)-who lived strenuously for many years with serious heart diseases. He mentioned also the angina pectoris patient of the famed 18th-Century physician, William Heber-den, "who set himself the task of sawing wood for half an hour every day and was nearly...
...good company of men of literature and science spoke their minds frankly in ten sessions of vigorous debate. Keynoted Chairman E. M. Forster (A Passage to India): "[After the war we should] insist on less secrecy in public affairs. . . . The world today has become a darkened room with more & more proceedings in camera, secret committees . . . banned books and withheld lists of banned books, censorships, prohibited areas and private understandings so esoteric that they could scarcely be mentioned even in cipher...
...Whoever the particular borrower (e.g., an industry), the Bank will insist on being guaranteed against loss by the government, central bank or similar agency of the country in which the loan is made...
...Cutter. Some of Sidney Hillman's journalistic biographers, notably the apostate leftist, Benjamin Stolberg, who profiled him in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940, insist that Hillman's sole talent is to coast along on the influence of his friends.* This is not wholly true, though Hillman indubitably has made his friendships work...
Even now, with materials piled up every where, and only China, which is a logistics problem, not supplied to the point of oversupply, the Services insist on building the piles ever higher. Both Services could probably cut back many production pro grams even farther than they have. But both fear one thing deeply: that man power, seeing the war program ending, will desert in droves to the security of peace production jobs. They well know that after each war-plant cutback the workers prefer and seek peace-plant jobs, so that they will not soon be let out again...