Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal, gas or oil for furnace fuel will depend on costs. But where coal furnaces persist, the coal must be kept in dustproof bins and fed into the furnace by mechanical stokers. Household heat from a community central heating system is remote, except for new, custom-built towns. Each house will have its own incinerator for waste paper...
During the expedition, 261 operations were performed. Any treatment to be of permanent value must include blood tests for traces of the microfilariae which persist after the tumors have been removed. Patients may still carry dangerous infection until these parasites are completely discharge from the system. Efforts were directed more toward public than individual health...
...easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon, he should be isolated and not allowed to reside in a region where the Eusimulium concerned in the transmission prevail. Since the microfilariae do not disappear immediately following the operation, but often persist for a considerable time thereafter, (and in cases with no further detectable tumors,) periodic microscopical examinations should be made after operation to detect the number of microfilariae which persist...
Terms: The Great Powers were informed that if they persist in their rejection of Japan's offer to share China then, this week, Japan will launch a new and greater offensive at Shanghai, pushing on into China alone...
...work with the problems which arise in such an occupation. But many are unwilling to make politics a life work because they have become disillusioned by the graft, the dishonesty, and corruption which walks with the profession. To this argument the only answer can be that such conditions will persist until enough men of principle and honesty enter the ranks of public servants. Mr. Castle was writing only of the State Department, but his sentiments apply as well to all branches of the service. The value of a public career is not to be measured by the fortune amassed...