Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indian girl Winona who loved as was the way in those days the bravest of her uncle's warriors. Now her uncle wanted her wedded to Matosapa, chief of a friendly tribe, who came to warn him of approaching peril from the Chippewas, and so relentlessly did he insist that she, despairing, sent for her true love to come back from the war. Home came Chatonska galloping over the plains only to be branded as a deserter, exiled. And Winona, beaten and wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed stranger, jumped to her death from a lonely rock...
Alfred Salmon, rich and potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening...
...difficulty faced by American graduate schools is a very real one. The smaller college have felt it necessary to insist upon advanced degrees for members of their teaching staff and this has been very useful in raising the whole standard of our teaching, but men who are preparing to teach would really profit, but a somewhat different training from those who are planning to go in for productive scholarship...
There is a CRIMSON candidate whom I want to have fired. In fact, I insist upon it. Is not greatness to be recognized and treated with respect? Is not the man who is rightly called the Father of CRIMSON circulation to meet with deference from CRIMSON underlings? I will tell you, my sympathetic public, my grievance, and leave it to you to judge. I telephoned the CRIMSON office yesterday and in my usual dignified, albeit friendly tones called for the Managing Editor. Naturally I did not propose to talk business with anyone less. But it was a candidate who answered...
...German ranked second and Spanish Hard in commercial languages. A great part of the success of the Germans in South America and other countries has been due to their ability to speak the language of peoples with whom they traded, while the English speaking salesmen have been inclined so insist that these with whom they deal speak English...