Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...plan calls for camps, lasting four or five weeks in June and July, located if possible at the former training centers in nine army corps areas, which like Camp Devens are at the present moment lying almost deserted. Men under twenty are especially desired but ex-Plattsburgers will insist that anybody be eligible so long as he is enthusiastic. Perhaps 50,000 men will be taught the fundamentals of military training by reserve officers, who are thus offered an opportunity to polish up their knowledge by actual practice...
...apparent conviction on your part and that of many others that in this strike wages play a minor part, that nationalization is the fundamental question, and that Great Britain a opposed to it. I grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method...
...their entire stay very admirably represented the University that sent them forth. Mr. Palmer himself should be taught some of the first principles of sportsmanship. Every University has its traditions. An experience of over a quarter of a century with Harvard undergraduates leads me to believe that they insist on courtesy...
However, looking the present bravely in the face--if certain dear, but over-enthusiastic ladies, and certain learned but we fear misguided gentlemen, insist that Bacchus bow gracefully in exit to Fortuna...
...service and not alone for profits. Wage-earners aspire to be something more than numbers on the books of an industrial plant, something more than attendants of a machine, something more than cogs in an industrial system dominated by machinery owned and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters of themselves. Labor understands fully that powerful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their...