Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Dartmouth players can boast no such impressive record as the Harvard sextet but they have been dogged throughout the season by bad weather conditions which have forced the cancellation of many scheduled games. Their record so far consists of wins over some small New Hampshire academies and a win...
A waterfall, roared in his ears; he heard a thudding step behind him; a thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind...
The play next follows the adventures of the Nun. She is taken from the Knight by the Robber Count, and passes in turn into the hands of the Prince and the Emperor. Whoever possesses her is dogged by death, the Emperor killing the Prince, and then himself falling prey to...
Soon the dirge that is sung (superstitiously) for all medalists, went up. Russell Martin of Chicago dogged Dexter in his first-round match, let him beat himself with three putts at the 18th green.
The Story. By dogged, self-determined ways, pale young Martin Arrowsmith made himself a doctor. What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.