Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impression of finality and great advance which the Navy Department has tried to create, and which is evidenced in Secretary Knox's unfortunately patronizing attitude when he says "the whole thing will be carried along in a cordial spirit of experimentation"--if this attitude is allowed to persist, the long range value of the step will be lost. The problem is bigger than the navy and more far reaching than the war. Its solution is worth every effort, and the present opportunity, if properly handled, can become a vital link in that effort...
With the idea that one way to defend civilized activity is to persist in it, CBS's educational division planned a series of talks by U.S. historians (Tuesday afternoons 4:15 to 4:30 E.W.T.). Since most weekday, daytime radio fare might be called appealing but could hardly be called instructive, the idea seemed fair enough. Of the headaches involved...
There Geneticist Ralph Phillips will breed the animals toward genetic stability, so that their characteristics will persist when they are released to U.S. farmers, who now tend some 50,000,000 sheep...
...been developed whose sex can be identified by their markings as soon as they hatch. Sex-sorting of chicks has hitherto been a ticklish and difficult art. Unlike hybrid chicks, in which the sex difference shows up only in the first generation, the new breeds have sex distinctions which persist, according to the researchers who developed them. Developed at Cambridge, England, the new fowls are cherished in Britain, where only egg layers are wanted and it is a waste of food to raise young cocks until they can be identified...
...today, there are those who persist in their efforts to deter and delay us. According to them, we brought the Japanese onslaught on ourselves; or that it was a British plot; or that it was the plot of Jewish international finance...