Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of the bootleg liquor is just as deadly as denatured alcohol. It is strange logic to insist that if a person buys bootleg poisoned alcohol and is killed by using it he is a martyr. But if he buys carbolic acid and drinks it he is merely a suicide...
...breach of the principle of liberty of the press or of criticism. It is well that everyone knows Fascism does not fear either verbal or actual antagonists. What Fascism refuses to permit is liberty of libel, which is also severely banned by American legislation. That is to say, we insist upon tranquillity arid security for the Italian people, whose productive rhythm must proceed without being disturbed. Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick up miserable scraps of paper which are thrown...
...SHIRTMAKER (Also kimono make & Dry good sell) obviously aimed to please. "This time," said his message, "I was importent onnounuce for all lady LADY NECKTIE CREEP DE CHINE "All color and other one fancy patten." If Musa-Shiya did not, like Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, U. S. automobile manufacturer,* insist upon writing his own copy, how understanding a person must his interpreter have been...
...lack. I would not be understood to advocate driving out of the American college the extra curricular activities that play so large a part in its life and, no doubt, help to develop the self-reliance and initiative which characterize so many young American college graduates. But I do insist that the college is primarily a place of intellectual appeal in which attention to the serious problems of life should be emphasized and not overshadowed by other activities such as inter-collegiate football and athletics generally...
...determine where the responsibility lies as to games, and the same applies to studies. It is terribly hard to get the young American to stand on his own feet, either in intellectual matters or other matters. All that is what we have to do. We have got to insist that the student take the lead, and if they want to study, they must do that themselves...