Search Details

Word: doggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score was 9-21...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

People began to learn more about Mrs. Muench after February 1934 when a grand jury indicted her and four gangsters for the kidnapping in 1931 of strapping, wealthy Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley. Day after day, week after week newspapers dished up incidents from Mrs. Muench's past. At police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of a Hoax | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Landon is making a dogged race For Presnent of the United Stace."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

Among those who have lived up to or give promise of living up to promise are Cyrus C. Decoster, Jr. '37, John Erhard '38, and Henry Marcy, who gets a special boost from Jaakko. Francis Rivinus, a dogged worker from the Junior class, still has some work to do before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile the ravening reporters were handled on the Conte di Savoia with the utmost neatness by Victoria Eugenie's son-in-law, Italian Prince Alessandro TorIonia, and his wife the Spanish Infanta Beatriz. Nothing of a nature detrimental to the Duchess of Toledo was discovered and the Press considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen of Sorrows | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next