Word: persistently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after everyone else had abandoned the attempt...
...George Wald, professor of Bio-chemistry, will teach a lower level course next year. Nevertheless, it is clear that prominent scientists can give time to the program only at considerable personal sacrifice, and it may be unduly optimistic to expect that the present improvement will persist...
...exception to Parkinson's Law that everything which is tends to persist and everything that does tends to expand and take on bigger things is the Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
...affidavit from the NDEA, it is fighting to lift the loyalty provision from both the loans, which it itself administers, and from the grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist in the effort to release all federal funds from the affidavit restriction. As a leading academic institution, Harvard must be exemplary in its protest against all loyalty restrictions in federal aid to education...
...revolutions that went into ridding the world of the scourge of monarchy have not fully succeeded, as our cousins across the ocean persist in clinging to the idiotic idea that a whole nation is duty bound to support one family because they were born into that class...