Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Manchus were not easy to conquer and, on numerous occasions, Dr. Sun was almost caught by Imperialists and had, consequently, to flee the country. Thus it happened that he spent a great part of his time abroad, always, however, working for the overthrow of the Son of Heaven at...
Incidents. The most noteworthy of the incidents which befell candidates, during the past week, was the persistent bad luck which dogged Premier MacDonald. Dashing about the country in his now notorious automobile (TIME, Sept. 22), he was able to make many speeches-too many; the result being that, at the...
But the ghost was a ghost only. Lunch over, play rebegun, it vanished forever. Huge Tolley tried to recall it with colossal drives and dogged putting that overcame Marston on the last green. The Hon. Michael Scott besought it by crushing Sweetser 7 and 6. Of the other English, none...
Icebound. Producer De Mille has dogged the footsteps of Owen Davis's play, except at the single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady...
Both teams played far more successfully on the defense than on the attack. Each Harvard skater in particular dogged his man closely so that the Maple forward line was never able to penetrate intact beyond the Crimson quarter ice; individual players were able on a few occasions to take loose...