Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman Young asserts such doctrine publicly, he will deeply shock radio-bugs who insist that because radio is the most recent of communication devices, it is also for all purposes the best. But it is probably true that wherever wires can be conveniently laid and wherever traffic is heavy, wires are better than wireless. In a world system, telegraph wires act as collecting and distributing agencies for the long-distance leaps of cable and radio. Some such far-seeing plan may have been in the minds of Negotiators Lamont and Young, last week, when they proposed to join R.C.A. Communications...
...blown because there would be no cross streets and no pedestrians, and that motor cars on a smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable for a few residents on the Boston shore to insist that they be supplied with a rural park at their back doors. Great cities cannot provide secluded and quiet groves to residents of congested centers...
...Grant viewed Bishop McConnell with pious but vigorous alarm. In fact, he said, he would like "to set in motion an effort that will speedily rid the Council [Federal Council of Churches] of such a dangerous leader, or to insist upon our church absolutely withdrawing from the Council...
...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...
...Root is 84, Mr. Coolidge 56. The late great Boies Penrose used to insist that no man under 80 was eligible to Elder Statesmanship...