Word: persists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy sea came up and they were obliged to retire some distance until it should abate. Hope waned: 34 officers and men were in the hulk below. Hope was very dim. Thirty-four corpses? It was only unwillingness to abandon hope that made the would-be rescuers persist...
...teacher who inspired him with an abiding passion to find out certain things. Today, as president of the Michigan University, with a recognized reputation as a medical scientist there is no man in America with greater opportunities for usefulness to the Nation as a whole if he does not persist in raising the entrance requirements." G. P. Winahop In the New York Times
...racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...
...shares of holding companies. According to Mr. Insull, such holding-company shares have risen to unreasonable heights in recent markets, For, as he points out, the utility business is always subject to regulation by public commissions in a way unknown to ordinary industrial concerns. Yet security speculators persist in looking upon utility-holding-company stocks in the same light as industrial shares...
Much has been said in the columns to the left of "The Windmill" concerning the status of the college newspaper, all in vain, too, because college administrators still persist in disciplining college editors who will insist upon getting into not water...