Word: steadfastness
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...percentage of students who always have to be going against things which are required of them: they can't live happily under definite rules. The fact that this type are allowed to withdraw from the Houses removes a lot of comment which would arise otherwise against any steadfast regulation requiring all men to live in Houses...
...merchants and a good slice of the local press, directed the fight on Mayor Hoan. Put up to oppose him in the recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...
...simple life of toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would...
Bertrand Russell is still at his priestlike task. Not only bright but steadfast, he surveys civilization with a calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion...
...express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote to some of the current portraits under which I suffer. . . . "This club has stood steadfast. ... Its membership has stood steadfast. . . . After two years of fever and tumult in Washington, I assure you this is a gratifying occasion." That the club had not required a formal address from him moved President Hoover to remark: "When a large number of segments of our population are seeking relief, that...