Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although these young Balboas do not insist that there is a short-cut to the Pacific through Brazil, they believe themselves to be on the trail of a strange tribe of Indians ruled over by a squad of two hundred white women. Here is, indeed, a case of snarled complexes--Kawaian, Amazonian, perhaps even a "Green Mansion" complex. The details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down...
...Fosdick scored those who insist on a systematic body of doctrine, or membership in any church, or performance of a given ritual as the essence of Christianity. He said that religion must be freed of the irrelevant entanglements, the artificial adhesions, that do not matter, and he stressed the absurdity of the idea that the college man is not a Christian, because he "has had his intellect liberated by that luminous and illuminating view of the universe that has come to us in the concept of evolution...
...recommendation that no change should be made at this time in the new rule of rate making. His attitude will encourage those who believe that the Transportation Act, if given a fair trial under normal conditions, will take care of the situation. He will disappoint those who insist that the rate-making rule, with its affirmative declaration that the railroads are entitled to a fair return on property value, should be repealed...
...economic necessity. In some cases English peers get a living by marrying American heiresses. Generally women marry nowadays to get means of subsistence. All this would be replaced by a system whereby the state would register a couple desiring to establish a family. The state would insist that the baby come up to a certain weight and would endow motherhood...
...most untoward upset of the week was Nebraska's victory over the hitherto invincible Notre Dame eleven, 14-7. For the second year in succession the Nebraska Cornhuskers have blighted the prospects of Knute Rockne (Notre Dame coach) for national championship considerations. Astute students of the game insist, none the less, that Rockne is the greatest coach now teaching football...