Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calmer moments, even Philip Snowden knows that the Empire's foreign policy is traditionally supposed to have a broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites...
...weird deed which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy was the larger...
...June of the next year came a scorching day. In the morning, as usual, the dogs scampered and trotted out on the laboratory roof. Toward the end of the afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...
...Ashmont, Mass., Mrs. Peter Rabbit of No. 91 Florida Street saw a barking Irish terrier jump at her infant daughter in the back yard. She ran to the rescue, retreated before the dog, called Mr. Rabbit. He charged, retreated, called the police. One policeman, two wagons with experts from the Animal Rescue League, and 1,500 neighbors finally captured the terrier in the Rabbit bathroom. None of the Rabbit family was hurt, nor was the dog...
Meanwhile a shaggy Irish terrier crouched outside the Ambassador's Paris bedroom. "Whiskey" was the dog's name, and no amount of lobbying could make Ambassador Herrick change...