Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skeptical protest. It is perhaps equally difficult to give lacrosse the serious consideration that it merits at present. But the game of lacrosse is rapidly ceasing to be such a colossal joke as many have thought it in the past. It commands the sympathy of a long suffering under-dog...
...Speaking frankly, the questions of a constitution and electoral representation are of no importance at the present day in China. The only issue before the country today is who of the militarists is to be top dog...
...smoking, spitting men; a jury of eminent Virginians; untidy, courageous John Marshall in the Chair; and Burr, the little Colonel-powdered hair, black coat, pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black dog...
...took Macmillan 33 days to cross the great glacier that is Ellesmere Land, between Greenland and Axel Heiberg Land. In airplanes, these laborious 580 miles could be traversed in less than five hours. It took him a week to push out on the floes 150 miles with dog and sledge. The planes now at his disposal will have a daily cruising range of about 1,200 miles...
...inscrutable, saturnine heroism of her husband began to move her, if not to love, at least to admiration. He took cholera. She knelt beside his contorted body, begging forgiveness. His lips opened. She bent to hear his last words. "The dog it was that died," he said in a blackening whisper...