Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Boston Terrier Club show. Mr. Rudginsky put his thoroughbred into a black fibre bag bearing his initials in red letters. In the hotel lobby he put the case down, stepped away a few feet to say good-by to some friends. When he stepped back case and dog were gone...
...brought 24 hours of unexpected life to three condemned murderers because their executioner was snowbound. A snow plow ran into a train on the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn line, badly injured two passengers. At Worcester all stores closed. School was called off for thousands of Massachusetts children. The Eastern Dog Show in Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route No. 1 was frozen tight all the way south to Philadelphia...
...Jersey the storm blocked the huge Brunswick Pike. At one point, near Princeton, 250 motorists left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
Sports events did booming business. Dog tracks at Miami were crowded every night. The thoroughbreds and oleanders were in full bloom at Joe Widener's Hialeah Park where pari-mutuel betting was averaging $250,000 a day. With little more than half the Hialeah racing season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson...
...dangerous and obviously unfair to our captains and lieutenants of industry. And to allow the courts the ultimate word in these troubles would be, as it has been, quite inimical both to the workers and to the speedy adjustment of difficulties; their record along this line, what with yellow-dog contracts and injunctions, exhibited, to say the least, very doubtful impartiality. And at the conclusion of our eliminatory procedure we are forced to second the newly-born scheme of arbitration which vests power finally in the N. L. B. with an enlarged membership of known liberals of known integrity...