Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandest football game that ever I saw, we staged in the Stadium last year against Yale. We were the under dog, playing one of Yale's greatest teams, but she came up just the same and fought the Elis off the field. That's the kind of a game I enjoy...
...president" by bringing Dartmouth from the little "eleemosynary institution"- of John Marshall's day to the great college that it had become when Dr. Tucker resigned in 1909. Died. Thor, 2, able retriever of golfer's dub-shots; at Briarcliff Lodge golf course, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Dog Thor was struck by an automobile when retrieving a ball-nevertheless brought it back to the golfer, wagged his tail, died...
...April 10, 1909 with Professor Marvin from an expedition supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary's base claiming that Marvin had been drowned...
...Those sad young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...
...brought him down to show him civilization, and Abie Bromfield, "Eskimo" (whose parents were English) felt a certain responsibility to his host. They had talked together by arctic firesides and Captain MacMillan had told him of these big houses, and of sleds that ran around on wheels without any dogs, and of yellow stars made put of glass and stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic, and Abie Bromfield, who drove the Captain's dog team, evinced a polite interest in the marvels that were told him. The other natives...