Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing how sensitive educated people are it's remarkable how Boston and Cambridge newspapers insist on being stupidly comical. We read in the Cambridge Tribune of July 21: "With Paul Elmer More and W. C. Brownell he (inving Babbitt) represented what the modern mind is likely to symbolize as the ivory tower." Sounds like some well known Tutoring Bureau notes on Comp...
TIME says this must be labeled an advertisement but we still insist it's news...
...would not insist on her right as a neutral to trade with a nation which by common consent had been "aggressive...
...effective in defending the country against an outside enemy." He encouraged them to send their own men to Parliament "to advance their claims." To assure them he was on their side, he said. "The civil war was caused by our opponents [the Cosgrave Party], who tried to insist that a certain section of the people take the oath." Up from his seat rose peppery Opposition Leader Cosgrave. He cried bitterly. "You began the civil war-we ended it!" Through the mind of every Dail member echoed the civil war's whole story of murder and treachery, still potent...
...contemporary undergraduate to appreciate the career of George Herbert Palmer and his relationship to the University. For many students today he was only a name, for others hardly that. A few associate him with a famous group of philosophers, but Professor Palmer, as he himself was quick to insist, made no original contribution to American thought. Even his fame as a teacher was somewhat overshadowed by the creative work of his colleagues. Yet he was in a sense more closely associated with the development of Philosophy here than more distinguished men. His forty-two years of teaching affected not only...