Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...
...westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful of snooty thoroughbreds, he was awarded another medal and a ribbon-for being the most traveled dog in the world...
...middle of the game "What the hell do we care?"), but at the same time a wealth of confidence was being built up in Dick Harlow's ability as a football coach. This first appeared among the players themselves and by the end of the season the hand-dog, furtive look on the faces of Harvard sports followers was beginning to disappear in spite of the fact that Harvard won no major games that year...
...gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered...
Small Animals. As prosperous as any of the 2,500 veterinarians at the convention were those who specialize in "small animals" (dogs, cats). The U. S. has some 2,000 of these specialists, among them two or three dozen women. Their best clients are the nation's 40,000 professional dog breeders and the owners of pets raised in the unnatural conditions of the city.* These veterinarians are up on many of the latest medical wrinkles. At Omaha last week one specialist showed how to deliver a city-bred bitch by Cesarean section, another adroitly gave a blood transfusion...