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Word: insistences (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that the present tragic world order should be charged to physicists, chemists, and engineers, then I insist that you have not thought it through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3,000 Alumni Fill Metropolitan Opera House to Hear Conant Open Associated Harvard Clubs Symposium | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...Artie Shaw, but his band is a completely new one and doesn't have any famous swing men, nor does it pretend to play in the Shaw manner (cheers). The one Shavian remnant is the old Shaw library of some hundreds of original and standard tunes. So if you insist on hearing "Back Bay Shuffle" or "Begin the Beguine," you can get it. While the band doesn't play great swing, from its records and the reports I have been able to get, it plays excellent dance music...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

...That Ambassador Kennedy would "insist on the necessity of [Great Britain] aiding Poland immediately with cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Nazi White Book | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...hanker feverishly for an electric razor, but stoutly maintain that his old razor is the only thing that will lick his whiskers. A woman may love to prance giddily to the strains of hot music, but insist that nightclubs bore her, that she would rather curl up with a good book. Instead of going in for statistical questionnaires and surveys. Dr. Dichter talks to people, studies their personalities. He doesn't always believe what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychoanalysis in Advertising | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will not Senator George accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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