Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind persist in believing...
Harold Lloyd was not so far from wrong when he described college life in his much maligned moving picture "The Freshman". For such odd phenomena do still persist in spite of all the attempts on the part of the semi-sane to make university life at least half cultural. Indeed, I have discovered by some diligent research in the files of other college papers many gestures of the "just step right up and call me Speedy" variety. For instance...
Many Harvard graduates are prone to take for granted that the Harvard given them by heritage will likewise persist in the future through some invisible power. That will depend upon Harvard...
...recumbent position is most comfortable. They should select the midship region of the ship, where the motion is minimal, and the weather side of the vessel, as the wind is fresher there and in small ships not so apt to convey an undesirable odor from the galley. Cases that persist in spite of simple remedial measures, demand careful examination. A slight pre-existing cardiac incompetence may be aggravated by the efforts of vomiting and may cause a passive congestion of the abdominal viscera, with deficient oxygenation of those tissues. This has been shown to be productive per se of nausea...
Exchange of Wives. And here is where the screen has put its foot into a trap again. Marriage is a matter too complicated for the stunted treatment accorded to nearly every screen play. Yet films on marriage persist. They must have a box office value, but it is the impression of many people that pictures of gilded vice and of marriages that do not jell are chiefly responsible for the low esteem in which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic...