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Although he vigorously argued as a legislator that Congress couldn’t create a national bank, after losing that debate he later accepted as president that the long-continued “decision of the nation” should “over-rule individual opinions.”
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025
Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But above all they were fed up with restrictions�of which the long-continued blackout was almost the symbol.
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Never again must free Americans face the specter of long-continued, mass unemployment.
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A marriage contracted from any such motive is sure to bring unhappiness of a long-continued, wearing and often heart-breaking kind.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus