Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...alumnus said, "Must you fellows persist in publicizing cheesecake? Next spring I expect you to dramatize the Kinsey report...
Mansfield Lonie, of the National Bureau of Standards, is involved in commercial anthropometry. His job, he said, is to set up scientific size standards for the clothing industry. So far, he has had poor cooperation. Clothiers, particularly women's dress manufacturers, refuse to face anthropometric facts. They persist in designing garments on "model forms" which have little resemblance to real female bodies. They assume that women will change their shapes with the shifting moods of fashion. It makes life pretty difficult, Mr. Lonie hinted, for a serious anthropometrist...
...telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says he, "are in the Dark Ages. A general college education of at least two years must become an American birthright...
Boss Ket's Way. It was back in 1928 that G.M.'s Alfred P. Sloan asked Chief Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering why the diesel was so cumbersome. Boss Ket snapped back: because the engineers persist in making them so. Shortly after, Boss Ket went to work simplifying and lightening diesels. Into his experiments G.M. put $25,000,000, including the purchase of a plant for locomotives at La Grange...