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Word: insists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure you realize that is conduct which I cannot possibly overlook and I must insist you do not continue to live here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stag at Bay | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

History has proven to us time and again that Communism has no place in America. The Red idea appeals to a certain antagonistic and aggressive spirit interred in the bones of every "down-and-outer". Communistic advocates stubbornly insist that it is a desire for a Red government. That is the most serious of their many mistakes. The man is dissatisfied with his economic position in our type of industrial society. He wants to gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

Trouble continues with the British, who tighten their watch and insist, on calling the prisoner simply General Bonaparte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...friends, a person called "Gigs," or Jackie Cooper if you insist, draws Mickey Rooney into the trade of tire stealing. It seems that he needs eighty dollars to buy a tombstone for his father, who has just been electrocuted. Freddy stumbles on their plans, and convinces them that they could get eighty dollars a lot more quickly by stealing toys from millionaires. But he is really the hero just the same. E.H.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT LOEW'S STATE and ORPHEUM | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Harvard Advocate fails to fulfill the promise of its motto, "Dulce eat Periculum." A preview can, however, parade several articles which make lively reading. William Harlan Hale, Yale 1931 and one of the founders of the famed "Harkness Hoot," finds several differences between Harvard and Yale: that both insist on the separation of education and politics, but that Harvard more often actually separates them; that though Yale looks older, Harvard is older; that Harvard families are the older families. These differences are obvious, Mr. Hale thinks, because they are superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

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