Word: persist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School offers a problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...
...Mayor White has not yet gone so far as to urge elimination of all the beach artists, he deplores the trend toward commercialism, would prefer a return to the oldtime "innocuous" status, intimates that he will take steps if boardwalkers are further bothered by money-chiseling sand-chiselers who persist in erecting by their studios such poems as: Kind words I like to hear To praise I'm deferential Criticisms I get now & then But the coins are the things essential...
...their way from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits the use of oils in the noses of infants." Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, another specialist...
...offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense. And if any Scholar persist on a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...
...other hand, two types of travelogues--both of tropical savor--are offered for the moviegoer. Rather mediocre is "Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment...