Word: persist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigaret. He yelled for a drink of beer, turned on the gas jets of the kitchen stove, refused to jump off the icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...
What Belgium most fears is that Leopold III, a passionate devotee of mountain climbing like his father who climbed once too often, will continue to persist in this risky royal sport, thus keeping the realm in peril of another accident which might leave the Belgians stranded with a three-year-old King Baudoin...
...economy measure which has hampered the progress of scholarship since September, 1932. It has seemed incredible that of all the possible ways of saving money, Harvard should fix upon the closing of the library, the very heart of the University. It has seemed even more incredible that it should persist in the measure long after its error had been almost universally recognized...
...lighting of the room itself and of the hallway. It may very well be that the advantages accruing to the college from having the reading room open in the evenings are far outweighed by a light bill of $100. Perhaps Mr. Tillinghast and the Library officials will persist in feeling so. It is a conviction to which they are entitled. But one fears that it will gather them few laurels in the name of reason...
...answer is that Fascism, far more easily than Socialism, can go unrecognized if we are determined not to recognize it, if we persist in speaking in individual and not in political terms. If Huey Long is not a Fascist, if Louisiana is not a Fascist state, where in the world is a Fascist, and where is Fascism? Louisiana is being governed under an imposed dictatorship, preserving only the formalities of parliamentarism. It is being so governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize...