Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forum is the last magazine in the world to protest at honest difference with its authors' opinions, but it really must insist that the facts stated shall have some relation to the facts as they exist...
...railroads earned 5.23% on the amount of money it would have taken to have constructed them anew (according to the Committee of Public Relations of the Eastern Railroads). Railroads prefer the larger, replacement values upon which to base transportation rates, and so, profits. But shippers insist on a fixed, 1914 valuation. The I. C. C., they say, must catch the values of the railroads at some point, and the year 1914 is as good as any. People who use trains must pay profits on some fixed...
...enough to leave the operators' profits unimpaired by the new low price of coal. Similarly, rapped M. Tardieu, the men were wrong in demanding that their wages remain the same while the price of coal was cut. The Government, declared M. Tardieu, must and would here and now insist that the men take a cut in wages of 2.50 francs (9?) a day, while the operators should reduce the price of coal 15% to 18% depending on the grade...
...CRIMSON has missed the point. The true intelligentsia do not insist on their own particular point of view--that is obviously not the cultured outlook. It is not that any single theory is more correct than any other, but that a four out-of-five agreement on some subject reflects a singularly narrowed, amazingly uncritical, and therefore more or less uncultured, outlock. For just as uniformity predicts narrowness so is breadth inherent in culture. --The Daily Princetonian...
...that is what it was called. . . . What I have now resembles what I had [when I was 23] in every way, but they now call it arthritis. . . . I have been in Johns Hopkins Hospital since the latter part of December. . . . If people want to transact business with me and insist upon doing so at Johns Hopkins Hospital, I will be simply compelled to move elsewhere and conceal my location until I can force everyone to take up his business matters through my office [60 Wall St., New York City; he is at Battle Creek, Mich...