Word: persist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your best teachers here, whose teaching you will value most highly in later years, will be found among those who are catalogued as students. We welcome you who come from other lands precisely because you come in the double capacity of student and teacher. If any such distinction must persist, I wish there were a third class of our members who were a third class of our members who were not denominated professors in the sense of having prescribed "courses" to teach, and who were not listed as students having prescribed "courses" to take. I should like to think...
...acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries, and yet the dangerous tendency towards leniency would persist as the experts became bogged in the theories of behaviorism. Thus, it is disconcerting but wise, to realize that posterity too will have its laugh at the difficulties contemporary penology is having with a clumsily handled mass of hypotheses...
Lest persons anxious to gain even his disapproving notice should persist in sending greetings, Signor Mussolini informed the Fascist press that some 20,000 messages of this character which he received last year were "burned without being read...
...handicap of an innocent and benign exterior. Old gentlemen used to pat him on the head in public places, and kind relatives used to supply him with constant provender, the gentlemen with buffalo nickels, and the ladies with peppermints. A utilitarian even at his early age, the Vagabond would persist in harmonizing his actions with his appearance, to his immense material profit and moral advantage in times of stress...
Would Anton Smetona persist in refusing to be King of Lithuania? That was the core of the diplomats' argument, and they recalled his career...