Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher-members own the copyrights to nearly all the music composed in the U. S. since 1914. It is affiliated with similar societies abroad. To many radio listeners and broadcasters the phrase "by special permission of the copyright owners" has been irksome. A. S. C. A. & P. used to insist upon it, permitting no facetious trifling with the announcement. Lately, however, it lifted this requirement. Most of its songs may be performed without special permission, but a number are restricted, for example musical comedy songs which the producers do not wish to be too soon familiarized. On the current special...
...Mills, Hurley and Hyde?the three musketeers of the Hoover Administration! . . . They scoff at this proposal for a new deal. Do these musketeers insist upon playing the game with marked cards...
...Repeal to Constitutional conventions within the States, and if three-quarters of the States cancel the 18th Amendment, then the last step of the W. O. N. P. R. program will be in order. The organization pledges itself to: 1) assist in framing temperate State liquor laws, 2) insist that national Prohibition remain effective until such laws are operative, 3) conduct a campaign of temperance education throughout the nation's schools, churches, welfare institutions. Mrs. Sabin insists that she has enlisted in the fight for Repeal and revision of the nation's liquor laws "for the rest...
Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers...
...injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...