Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myers sometimes writes as if he had gone berserk, but just as often, in his effort to persist in the singsong scaldic tone of his tale, he loses his reader in thick northern mists...
...course of his rescues, Ivor Brown has found that the English have been strangely inconsistent in the words they keep and those they throw away. Why, for instance, does flay persist but not the igth Century word flay some? Why is gruesome still around but not the verb to grue (shudder)? Concludes Curioso Brown, with a February frown: despite the inventiveness of slang, the English language seems doomed to be drowned out by the tintamarre of the commonplace; all it can hope to do is to thribble along...
...Southern anti-Negro bitter-enders . . . persist, of course, but ... it is shocking surely now, to find James F. Byrnes joining in the forefront of them along with Herman Talmadge. I say shocking, not because it is Byrnes, Governor of South Carolina, but Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State...
...well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath's emphasis on manipulation, a technique designed to maintain the normal circulation of blood and proper nerve function, which osteopaths regard as basic to all health. Thus, many M.D.s persist in regarding osteopathy as little better than chiropractic, whose practitioners claim that illness springs from maladjustment of the spinal column. The American Medical Association still holds it unethical for an M.D. to refer his patients to an osteopath (unless the osteopath also happens...
...Young Progressives word their "Peace Poll" this way? Some people may think they are bent on insulting the intelligence of those who persist in eating in University dining halls, Others probably claim the poll truly reflects the political thinking of the Young Progressives. And then there are those who assume that the poll was draw up for the Young Progressives by some evil genius...