Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butler's definition of a university is indefensible. He likens it to a church in which "no reasonable person would insist upon remaining" if he did not agree wholeheartedly with its principles and doctrines. But a university is not a church. The purpose of a church is to teach absolute and revealed truths; the purpose of a university is to search for truths that are as yet unrevealed...
...border line between the living and nonliving hovers a mysterious invisible substance: the virus. Some scientists think the virus is the most primitive form of life; others insist it is a heavy protein molecule, with complex chemical reactions, a kind of crystal which exists as a parasite on living tissue. But whatever the nature of the virus, one fact is certain: it is the foe of all living things, from microbe...
...Author Lloyd Cassel Douglas, saying: "Please insist on the preservation of your amateur standing...
...have different temperaments. Despite exceptions, fat people seem in general to be jolly, gregarious, lazy, comfort-loving; thin, wiry or bony people are often secretive, seclusive, introverted;* powerful giants are supposed to be self-assured, mild-mannered and softspoken. Making the maximum possible allowance for environmental conditioning, most biologists insist that there must be some relation left between behavior and physical constitution...
...conduct a political investigation. As Loganberry has his eye on the White House, the Louisiana bad boys, as a way of silencing him, try to catch him off base with women. The Senator outwits them, but is finally brought to heel with a picket line, which the politicos insist "no Presidential aspirant will ever cross...