Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that the building shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall be maintained as I built...
...solid, grey, squire-like man from Illinois also waited for the result. He had been a State Governor and knew the surge of popular acclaim. "No man ever ran away from the presidency," he had said. He was hoping the farmers from his section of the land would insist upon the nomination coming to him. He thought he could win the trust of all the other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly...
Gene Howe had criticized Lindbergh for not landing on a field crowded with eager spectators. Despite threatening and sneering telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...Pope] did not mean to condemn the Fascist party for monopolizing the education of youth, but simply to insist ... as a Father speaking to his children . .. that education should be effected in a Christian spirit...
...that having the same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether the twins were together or apart. Others claim the mental disease to be the result of environment and association; insist at least that identical twins would not go simultaneously mad or have the same type of insanity if they had not been brought up together. This, in extreme form, is the field of the present investigation...