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Word: dogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another, younger Murphy assistant, the watch dog of his outer office, is Mennen Williams, 25, a shaving soap grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...between-sessions sparring shows, in the big marble-pilastered caucus rooms of the House and Senate office buildings at Washington. The inquisitors are financed by their colleagues (out of the Treasury) to improve the public weal and make political capital. Above are the three main attractions scheduled for the dog days, the Dies show beginning this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sideshows | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Soldiers demanded money-or-life from the Rev. John E. Williams of Nanking University and when he objected, they shot him, stripped him, and walked off (an eye-witness said) "chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog." The body of Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marines was found shot and bloated in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Nanking's British Harbor Master was killed, too, and one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bare Fist, Gloved Fist | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...dog holds sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubadour | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tale of Three Cities | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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