Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Landon to reaffirm this statement and to repudiate the contribution and to insist that it be returned by the Republican State Committee to J. P. Morgan whom he charges is a racketeer...
Quick were many Harvardmen to insist that whatever Author Tunis' survey might show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
...choice has to be made. If there are to be universities which are not controlled by the government, if there are to be universities free of the government because they are privately endowed, if in accepting these endowments the universities are to be able to insist on their freedom from the prompting of private interest, then the universities themselves must also renounce the ambition to play a part in partisan political controversy...
...Women: -"The desexed female bee workers throw the drones out and sting them to death. The white ants don't even trouble to rear them. Well, we have started on the way in our public school system. Once boys were taught by school masters. Now we insist on supposedly sexless females, and if they marry normally we throw them...