Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Several states prohibit Bible reading in school, others insist that only the Protestant Bible be read. The committee would like to see each student study the version of his own faith...
...Warsaw police station a veteran WIN (Liberty and Independence) fighter spoke what was in the minds of many. "There's nothing more we can do," said he. "I don't understand why the Americans insist on hoarding their atom bombs, instead of putting them to use. When they decide to bring them out, I'll be willing to fight again. Meanwhile, it's time to go back to work. I'm tired and I want to live with my wife, work in the daytime and sleep nights...
...museums in the world which admittedly doesn't insist on good art is London's National Portrait Gallery. When Queen Victoria opened the Portrait Gallery 90 years ago, the trustees were warned never to "consider great faults and errors, even though admitted on all sides, as any sufficient ground for excluding any portrait which may be valuable as illustrating the history of the country...
...score of ripped fenders were mailed in (though the Odells insist that no motorist has ever cracked up because of the signs), and Burma-Vita duly paid...
...consolidate all the dispersed Alumni functions under one roof. As a consequence, crowded Wadsworth House could be left to help satisfy the expanding space demands of the other University offices which now use part of its facilities. Some dichards may plead for the old "serenity" of historic Wadsworth, or insist that the Harvard Club of Boston is an adequate gathering point, but these hardly seem valid objections to a desirable and long-needed plan that should be successfully brought to fruition several years hence...