Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least four hundred undergraduates will need no application of the parallel. Westmorly, Russell and some parts of Randolph echo with profanity every morning when the Church of St. Paul begins to announce determinedly that time is passing. Why avoid nine o'clock if this tactless timepiece is going to insist on such an unpleasant fact early and often? If one relies on the chimes, they are sure to hibernate in winter; and the time they indicate is always more original than accurate...
...spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations in the effort to diminish the chances of war. Being in this subjective frame of mind they are impatient with those who insist upon examining the World Court proposal without parti pris...
They stated again the claim of High-Church Episcopalians to be "in no way numbered among those Christian bodies which are decended from the Reformation of the 16th Century." While the Episcopal Church recognizes but two sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members...
...Insist on better building regulations and safety measures with regard to gas, oil, electricity and other dangerous commodities...
Questions of financial policy loomed last week as the annual convention of the Radical-Socialist party opened at Nice. Before the convention appeared M. Herriot, Radical standard bearer, to insist that France can balance her budget only by a direct levy on capital. Likewise appeared M. Caillaux, Finance Minister, to plead for the powerful support of the convention, in order that he might be given one more chance to balance his budget by "orthodox" means...