Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weary cry of the older generation against the younger which has outstripped it in the race. Other societies for the enforcement of virtue as interpreted by themselves will join the movement. But their efforts are fore-ordained to failure. The younger generation will persist in the enjoyment of its new found freedom until it in turn becomes the older generation. Then it too will inevitably cry out against the changing times...
...England, making the alliance a three-cornered one. Behind the figure of M. Hymans stands the energizing force of France, eager, even anxious, to perpetuate the old Entente. Always jealous of foreign influence over Belgium. England has viewed the Franco-Belgian alliance with suspicion. Haunting memories of Louis XIV persist like Marley's ghost. Since the new head of the Foreign Office, Austen Chamberlain, is said to favor such a Triple Entente, the proposal is opportune, and naturally emanates from Belgium...
...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
Should the score ever be forgotten by newer generations, one memory will always persist: the chivalrous manner in which the Princeton men expressed their joy. Their regard for the shattered hopes of thousands of Crimson supporters will do more than any other single event of the past few years to cement the growing friendliness between the two universities...
Since this is so, any attempt to interest its reasonably mature students in the games of the schoolboy,--class activities and group demonstrations as such--must of necessity be received with apathy--or the famous "Indifference." Just so long as the less acute persist in their endeavors, just so long will "Harvard Indifference" be spoken of by outsiders with curiosity and wonder. It is not remarkable. It is not even anything genuinely interesting, like a defense complex. It is merely the reaction of a group of men to something they consider tiresome and a little childish...