Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hang-fire war between Radio and the Press, the newspapers thus far have done all the fighting. Radio, which gets more & more of the national advertiser's dollar each year partly at the expense of newspapers, has been able to sit back and insist quietly that, so far as Radio was concerned, no war existed. Last week, however, Columbia Broadcasting System took action which, if not a show of force, at least was good showmanship. It formed Columbia News Service, Inc. to gather and broadcast news...
...alarm the danger of an engine cutting out while the pilot is rumbling in. Moreover, he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing "deadstick" if necessary. Oldtime pilots prefer not to rumble, Mr. Simmonds found; but operators insist on it because a glide sometimes entails dips, swoops and sideslips which may frighten passengers...
...issued and the budget should not be balanced. There appears to be no such definition of issues at Washington. The inflationists admit that they would resort to the strychnine of rising prices in order to keep the patient alive through an extraordinary crisis. And the advocates of sound money insist that rising prices will kill the patient. So President Roosevelt is administering the deadly herb in mild applications...
Plain readers are not apt to go to Gertrude Stein, with or without introduction. Mahomets in their own right, they insist that Mountain Stein should come to them. And now at last the mountain has come. At one long-deferred bound she has moved from the legendary borders of literature into the very marketplace, to face in person a large audience of men-in-the-street...
...Surveying the rampage of crime, the increase of atheism, the stolid indifference toward the stern requirements of purity and chastity, we insist 'BACK TO LUTHER.' And if this challenge means wide and repeated protests against the bribery and corruption of officials in the various departments of American administrative government; if it involves organized protests against the levities and discrimination of American courts, stick-to-the-finish campaigns against the debasing and enervating influences of commercial amusements as they are controlled by greedy, soul-less men, may God give us the courage and insistence to declare with undeniable finality...