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Word: doggedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose we have a dog who is a subjective artist. He is greatly moved by a sunset and transfers his emotion to paper in the form of a vague line which to him means the father and mother of all bones. This interpretation of the sunset is strictly subjective; it does not attract and may repel non-dogs who do not share the artist's experience and digestive system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...interloper and chased him into the bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the old hound had rejoined the hunt, the young coyote was on his tail again, thus proving that he was set on learning the trade, and he knew that he could learn more from an old experienced dog than from a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this is a joke, but I don't. She should be taken off the streets-the same as a mad dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Silly Honey | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Kennel & Couch. In Los Angeles, after Mrs. Frances McDermott's 180-lb. great Dane bit her, she ordered the dog destroyed, then relented when the animal shelter suggested that she have the beast psychoanalyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...There is some destiny about all this business," says Jack McCloy. "Germany seems to dog my footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Know the Russians | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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