Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news in the St. Louis speech was the suggestion that the United States, before joining the World Court, should insist on a new method of electing the judges. In as much as the method of electing judges has always been the most difficult matter to arrange in past efforts to create a World Court, many politicians and political commentators assert that the President, by raising the question, is preparing a graceful retreat from the World Court issue. But five times in his speech the President stated that he was not retreating...
...That President Harding in his letter to Mr. Wesley Wait, insisting on the obligation of states to exercise their power under the concurrent provision of the 18th Amendment (TIME, May 28), had voiced a "fundamental misconception." To insist that it is a state's duty, Governor Smith maintained, to pass the same laws as Congress, is to deny the fundamental rights of states under the Constitution...
Soviet Russia's decision not to insist on a twelve-mile limit for British trawlers...
Heidelberg women students are not permitted to duel. They have received all the privileges accorded to the male members of Germany's famous university except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry...
...grave of the patriarch Moses has never been discovered, and the scriptures declare that its whereabouts are totally unknown. But archaeologists insist on no less authority than this, and if there is any vestige of hope that the lost may be found, their policy is to persevere in their search. This attitude brought about the recent discoveries in Egypt. But, as the credulous will point out, this discovery was bought at the price of Lord Carnarvon's death, and the curse of ancient Egypt still exists to deter any future explorers...