Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...
...coast. Before it left North Carolina it had dragged the Diamond Shoals lightship six miles out of position, piled the four-masted schooner Kohler up on Gull Shoals. With a breeches buoy across a quarter-mile of snowy surf Coast Guardsmen took off nine men, a woman, a dog, two cats...
...Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only to be put in command of the inglorious base camp at Brest. In 1924 Devil-Dog Butler made his biggest headlines when he was given leave of absence from the Marines to act as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. He announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned to the Marine Corps, leaving Philadelphia...
...outlet for his vulgarity, leads to divorce, dissipation, bankruptcy. And then the muscular, go-getting, self-preservative qualities of Johnny Green come into play again. Through a rich but sallow girl whom he never quite wrongs, he climbs up again, richer than ever, politically popular, a grinning, driving top-dog with regrets but no remorse, and plenty of strong-man excuses, for his past. His wife comes back to him and the story leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles...
...shadows into the light of consciousness. A classic case is that described by the late Dr. W. H. H. Rivers, who succeeded in curing a young man stricken with claustrophobia in World War trenches by getting him to recall a childhood terror connected with a long passageway and a dog. Psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) commonly supplement- recall with their science's standard instruments: suggestion, persuasion, analysis, rationalization. Claustrophobes who have tried to reason with their unreasoning fears, will appreciate the Times letter of one V. G. T.: "May I take this opportunity of saying something that I think may help...