Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of range of a vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping, hard-hitting leather-pusher that he was when he qualified as a challenger. Critics eyeing his flabby lethargy toward the end of the encounter muttered: "Overtrained!" None disputed the decision given Berlenbach...
...Conn., June 7--The coaching launches for the second successive year having narrowly escaped shots from the over-vigilant coast-guard, who insist on mistaking them for rum-runners joined the crews here late last night to complete the training camp. As usual the Freshmen are established in their quarters near the boat house, while the University. Junior and Combination eights are on the hill...
...diehard, militant Fundamentalists, led by Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Philadelphia, who interpret Holy Writ literally; insist that all Presbyterians shall thus interpret it; and put a candidate into the field to combat a supposed menace to the "historic, blood-bought standards of the Presbyterian Church...
...solo, dancer, Scott Wilson beats anything seen on the college stage in a decade; what's more, the boy can act. What's more than that--if you insist on something more--his lady dancing partner, Mr. Courtland Gross, is almost as good. We don't know where Gross learned to dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters...
...Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League and the Locarno Pacts nailed down. Unfortunately, Sir Austen was obliged to admit, tacitly at least, that he had secretly committed the British Government to support the claims of Poland. It was made clear that only upon this supposition...