Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Bundy pointed out that in the "crisis of numbers" which now faces American colleges, educators would be able to set the standards to be maintained, due to the tremendous competition and demand for college degrees. "Those who insist on quality will be felt," he said...
...degree that he fails to achieve a view of science as a whole and of the interrelationship of the special fields within it. A general education in science needs to be provided for the future scientist or technologist as well as for the general student. One could scarcely insist that all students of history or literature should learn some biology, for example, but that the prospective physicist or chemist need...
Teachers at such institutions as Co- lumbia may insist that discussions are better than lectures, but they unwittingly assume that all discussions will be as good as the best ones. This cannot be, and a bad discussion is probably worse than a bad lecture, for one cannot read a good book in a bad section meeting, and (his) attendance is often enforced by punitive quizzes...
What worries Jones and other tribal leaders is the lurking threat that, as landowning Navajos outside the reservation get hold of oil-lease money to spend any way they want to, envious Navajos inside the boundaries will insist on getting rid of council control and dividing up the oil income among the individual families. That kind of pressure is already violent among the neighboring Southern Utes: a few weeks ago Indian thugs jumped Southern Ute Council Chairman John Baker, No. 1 opponent of the clamorous share-the-wealth faction, and beat him unconscious...
...they had gone too far. The mild-mannered, hollow-cheeked Gomulka, who had tried to steer a middle course between the extremists of both sides, was stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow...