Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team, boys! Throw the bull dog from...
Your bull--dog is groan...
...pictures alone give striking evidence of the great benefit which Dr. Grenfell's work has been to the sick and aged of the inhabitants. The hospitals, the hospitals ship, and the long tours of Dr. Grenfell with dog teams have saved many a sufferer of accident, disease, neglect and ignorance from a painful death. Dr. Grenfell called his missionary work unconventional, in that he looked after their welfare by founding co-operative stores and mills, by opposing fraud and oppression, and by using the medicine case more than the Bible. He has also started schools, set up weaving looms...
...told many amusing stories of Eskimo dogs and dog driving. With one of these teams a man can travel over 40 miles a day. The dogs have a ravenous appetite and last year they devoured two men when the food supply gave out. At the close of the lecture Dr. Grenfell showed pictures of last year's dog races, football game and other sports at one of his settlements
...Grenfell has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work among the inhabitants of Labrador for over 14 years. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship, the "Strathcona" cruises the length of the coast in summer, and during the winter covers great distances with dog-teams in his tours among the sparse and needy population. On one of his voyages he made the first chart of the coast which is in any way accurate. Dr. Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as mater-mariner, an agent...