Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love our seafaring brother, Gerard, but believe in each man to his own medium. For ourselves, Albert and I insist in this instance on being "given...
...rebuttal Government officials insist that Alaska is self-sufficient without an outside market; that her placer mining offers plentiful jobs at $1 to $2 a day in nonfarming seasons, that the Alaska potato was good enough to be used during the War as a dining-car attraction on the Northern Pacific Railroad...
...last year when the AAAmendments first came up, he balked. He led the fight that kept them from passage. Before the summer was out he moved over into the camp of his fellow Virginian Carter Glass. "There is enough of Thomas Jefferson left in me," said he. "to insist that . . . no Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual...
...took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy in two small suites-and having a jolly good time...
...dangers, as pregnant as those borne under the old scheme of things, are imminent if the University fails in its duty to insist upon advisers and tutors who shall have a more intimate knowledge of courses in all fields than at present. For, far from aimed at increased specialization, the change in distribution requirements is intended to permit a far more rounded field of knowledge than before. Wisely counseled, undergraduates will be refreshed, but not intoxicated by their new taste of freedom...