Word: persist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen devotees of Bacchus; and still others persist in destroying the pleasure of the game for those who find that one of these soiled ragamuffins has usurped a neighboring seat...
TIME may be said to have "flunked" in nearly every famed language, ancient or modern. Also, it has, on occasion, used nearly every famed language with great eclat. Therefore, far from omitting for eign words, TIME will persist toward perfection...
...nineties and the 'oughts and the 'teens. But it has been proved often enough that a small group of graduates may cripple any program of an institution by unintelligent opposition. Princeton and Harvard must continue to appear slightly absurd as long as some of their adherents persist in the mistaken zeal of self-righteousness...
...performance successfully refutes the arguments of those die hards who persist in the belief that there are never any pretty girls at Radcliffe. Many will appear at Brattle Hall this week helping to beautify a production that might have been merely amusing without them
...Massachusetts, and University, restoring the plazza to the last, of course? The little quadrangles that have been made along the edge of the Yard are one of its most interesting features. A completely cloistered Yard would be no detriment. Until Memorial Hall has inspired a 'Rugby Chapel' I shall persist in advocating a Harvard beautiful...