Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some reason this excellent plan was allowed to lapse. Possibly the immediate response from the students was not encouraging enough to justify the trouble and risk involved. It should be remembered, however, that such a project naturally develops slowly. It would be worth while to persist over a period of years if a fairly large response was obtained...
...picture, yet not far enough out to suit General Electric's board chairman. Last week Editor Hubert Lee of Dixie Business in Atlanta received a letter from Mr. Young: "... I have no desire or thought of entering politics under any circumstances and my disappointment is that people still persist in disbelieving my statements. I should think that one of the first qualifications for the Presidency would be not only to tell the truth but also to have people believe that you told the truth...
Other editorials: a foreboding of war between undertakers and cemeteries if the latter persist in the alleged practice of urging patrons to pay less for caskets, more for memorials; an argument in favor of high-pressure injection of embalming fluids; an alarmed view of "directories of funeral directors" charging high fees for listing names...
...world's only institution of its kind. Its purpose: to answer man's ever lasting curiosity about how he came to live as he does. In the dry U. S. South west, as in dry Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia, remnants of his early society still persist. Diligent searchers find tidbits of information which indicate how families grouped into tribes, tribes into peoples; how man progressed with his domestic utensils, from woven baskets to turned pots, from animal skins to woven clothes; how simple natural science became supernatural religion; how man's learning to cultivate corn required...
...entire project, developed in the Stout Engineering Laboratories at Dearborn, is ostensibly Designer Stout's. But rumors in the industry persist that, if successful after six months trial, the plane will be taken over by Ford for large-scale production...