Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people" are unusually stupid. Newspapers warn them of impending danger day after day; yet like the mouse exploring the depths of the sinster, red wooden trap, they persist stubbornly in following prejudice rather than good sense. Today if Mr. Murphy wins as he deserves to, it will be in spite of those who are "die-hard" Republicans, men as well as women...
...away with it at the college that they came from. They do it now because they can, and will, get away with it until the Harvard cheering section feels a little shame and self respect and throws them out in none too gentle a fashion. These individuals who persist in coming into the cheering section where they don't belong, place themselves on par with that low down rabble that infests the wooden stands and puts up such a wonderful exhibition of fair mindedness...
...demanded Dr. Hodgdon's resignation, say their dear desire is to restore their alma mater to its pristine purity, which was menaced by Dr. Hodgdon's striving to make the "poor man's Harvard" more like the real Harvard by paying money to athletes does that sinful device really persist in Cambridge? and by other "new ideas that do not jibe with the traditions of the university." The "loyal" students who supported the President organized parades and stripped for action in the best Lusk manner, but were prayerfully dissuaded from war on the local Soviet...
...ills and ailments of the world by starting with a new generation of men and bringing them up under conditions completely free from all influences and traditions of the past. Unfortunately, we cannot start with a new generation of men on a given day, and old generation of men persist in remaining whatever they happen to be, and can be sooner destroyed than remade. Over in Russia, closeted within the secret chambers of the Kremlin, a group of well-meaning individuals, having discarded experiences and traditions of the past, are trying to reorganize the shattered world by remaking grown...
...miles south of Miami, there has been picked up the body of a monster that calls to mind those gossips' tales of the fabled Sea Serpent,--tales which persist, even today, in almost every sea-side hamlet. In the days of our fathers, there were always to be found those who, with bated breath, had watched the demon of the sea; and from whose tongues the off-told tale slipped readily over a mug of ale in the smoky seamen's taverns. Weird and fearful were those stories, none the less so because the visible proofs of their truth were...