Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole...
Device for Preventing Dog Nuisance consists of an electrical grille. "When, therefore, the device has been placed in position in front of a building, or the like, where dogs have been in the habit of committing a nuisance, the next one that attempts the act, will receive a severe shock ... by reason of the grounding of the current through the dog's body. After receiving one such shock it is believed that that particular locality will be shunned in the future by every dog so punished...
...bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...
After two weeks of training, the jack rabbits at Abilene last week knew that their only chance for life was to beat the greyhounds to the burlap at the far end of the field. Each rump-bobbing rabbit raced 150 yd. over the greensward before a brace of dogs leaped in pursuit. One dog wore a red knit collar, the other a white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag...
...Sapling, for hounds under 16 mo.; the Futurity, for those under 22 mo.; the Derby, an all-age event which is called the Waterloo at the Coursing Association's autumn meet. "Gangster" was the wise word as the final day approached. "Gangster," said experts, "is the greatest dog that ever lived in America...