Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dog-trotting behind a murderous Japanese barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing...
Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor's dog fortnight ago, had all the dog's teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor the professor explained: "I looked up my legal rights and found that I was justified." Professor Piccard's motive was fear that the dog might bite the Piccard children, whom he left behind in Brussels last week as he started a tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied...
...easier to keep a bond from a dog than it is to take it from him once he has it," stated President Lowell speaking before 600 members of the Foreign Policy Association after a luncheon in the Copley Plaza Hotel on Saturday. He expressed his disapproval of the stand of the United States under the Hoover-Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of the gains of territorial aggression, declaring that instead of preventing war it will tend to lead the world into war. "The way to stop war," he continued, "is to settle its causes before they develop. The Hoover-Stimson...
...unfortunates to the laboratories in droves. Disregarding the well known advantages of a "cultural background" many men continue to elect courses in Biology, which involve a great deal of laboratory work, and which will later be almost duplicated in medical school. Their time is spent crouched over a defunct dog-fish, while literature and life alike are closed to them...
Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...