Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly in agreement with the belief that it is a valuable and decent thing to write English correctly, and with a proper regard for its extraordinary beauties," Mencken said. "If I were the editor of a daily newspaper I would certainly insist that even the sports pages be written for better than they are. I sometimes marvel that Americans are so insensitive to the gross abuse of their mother tongue. Certainly such a magazine as Time, if it were printed in England, would be denounced violently for its apparently deliberate degradation of the language...
...they are chiefly operating problems. In France the problem is to keep the trains on the track as well as to keep them from wrecking the French budget. In Russia it is to run more trains faster-the Soviet budget having no particular balancing point.* Though critics insist that U. S. railroads have been technological laggards (compared to other U. S. industries), the fact remains that the U. S. railroad plant is the finest in the world. Of the world's 780,000 mi. of railways about one-third is in the U. S. Some say that the plant...
...purpose of the lectures in English 52 is indeed admirable. A few other instructors have realized advantages of such a method, but the great majority of lecturers in academic courses still insist on reviewing the facts of the course at each meeting. These men would do well to take their cue from Professor Greenough and replace stagnant repetition of facts with enlightening commentary on background and personalities...
...Eleanor and Franklin often to this day laugh over their chagrin when, immediately after the service had ended, and they took their places in the receiving line, they found that their guests were more concerned about greeting the president than in congratulating them. For an awful moment, the children insist, they were left entirely alone while the crowd hovered around Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, shaking him by the hand...
...high school there seems to be a wide discrepancy in the pronunciation of the President-elect's name. Some teachers insist on the first syllable pronounced like ''goose" or "rue." while others uphold the sound of "rose." I would appreciate the correct pronunciation from...