Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftists would be more than a quarter of all foreigners in the International Brigade. The symbolic recall of 5,000 Italians would leave from 60,000 to 85,000 of them still in Spain. Therefore André Charles Corbin, French delegate at the Non-intervention Committee, tried to insist that all "symbolic recalls" should be "proportional," in the proportion of four Rightists to one Leftist volunteer...
...Paul petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to delay a reorganization hearing scheduled for Sept. 20, U. S. railroad men waited attentively to see whether I. C. C. would grant the delay. After two days' thought, the commissioners said "No," a broad hint that henceforth I. C. C. will insist on reorganizations being pushed through to completion...
I.I.U.R.A.'s greatest attraction is as much its mystery as its promises. Its recruiting agents insist that they can give no hint of how the Millennium is actually to be arranged until the event arrives. Agents like Gouverneur Ashwell claim not to know who started I.I.U.R.A. or who is currently running it. According to Mankind United (which I.I.U.R.A.'s members irreverently call "the book"), the organization was started in 1875 by an anonymous group of millionaires who pooled $60,000,000 to fight the "Hidden Rulers of the World." Purpose of the Hidden Rulers...
...scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits and tendencies can be inherited...
...decision to substitute in 1939, for her 15-year-old Syrian mandate, two republics-Syria proper and Lebanon. With this plan there are at least five incurable difficulties: 1) although Syria is mainly Mohammedan, Lebanon mainly Christian, both have strong, quarrelsome minority groups; 2) Moslem nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make...