Word: persists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fewer passengers than in 1921 but the average passenger is now riding almost three times as far. Moreover, since Pearl Harbor 6,584,422 troops (more than three times as many as in the corresponding months of World War I) have taken train trips. If these wartime habits persist at all, long-distance de luxe coach travel will be a cornerstone of the railroad business...
...Similar conditions still persist in the interiors of several stars, of which an egg-sized fragment weighs tons...
...include the facts of war. Keeping informed is a part of war-time responsibility, and the student who waits complacently for his number to be called is a shirker in a total war. Last night's performance places the majority of Harvard men among the ranks of those who persist in business as usual...
...here in America, the country that symbolizes democracy throughout the world, still one-sixth of the States persist in charging their electorate for the minimum right of choosing public servants, and as a result turn two-thirds of their citizens away from the polling booths. This is not just a matter of democracy spending a long time to take root. Democracy has been brazenly and defiantly legislated out of existence...
...wants to declare war on Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, such as Britain once sent to Finland, was drawn up in three versions. Each note explained that, should the Government of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) persist in its attitude of contributing to Axis aggression, the U.S. would find itself obliged to consider itself at war with Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria). Then an unforeseen difficulty arose: who would deliver the notes? There are no more U.S. representatives in Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria); the diplomatic representatives of those countries are at the moment...