Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people insist on my having hobbies, I shall reiterate two. I like to put on long, black silk trousers and listen to my husband play the violin. He does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...
...Washington authorities merely send carefully phrased messages to the newspapers, and insist that there must be assurance that American property rights will not be jeopardized, before they will submit to any judgment upon these rights. Arbitration under such circumstances resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their...
...Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...
...higher education, as it is understood in the vocational universities, is eminently practical, it can not be objected to as being over idealistic. A man trained in one method of earning his living has not wasted his opportunities. Everyone does not possess a scholastic temperament and those who insist on higher education for everyone "do not appreciate that all true education is self education, and that to force a boy, beyond a certain point, to remain in school and do set tasks in which he takes no interest may stultify his mind and fret his character." This attitude...
When Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepted the call to the Park Avenue Baptist Church, he made three conditions: that the Church should erect a new building near Columbia University, should open its membership to all Christians regardless of dogma and should not insist upon the principle of Baptism by immersion. The Church agreed. It would go a long way to get Dr. Fosdick, the most celebrated pulpit-orator of his generation...