Word: hardheadedness
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To hardheaded Brazilians the excitement was a perfectly understandable prelude to the Presidential election which Brazil is supposed to hold next January. Although Brazil is bigger than the U. S. in area (3,300,000 sq. mi. to 3,027,000) and larger than the United Kingdom in population, presidential...
Excerpts: "Beginning with the Fleming valve and the Coolidge X-ray tube, we now have an enormous variety of [electronic] tubes for radio sending, detection and amplification, electric power control or conversion from AC to DC or vice versa, lighting devices, sunshine meters, oscillographs. ... I take particular pleasure in mentioning...
From poor beginnings, with only a grammar school training, Banker Mount worked himself up in 15 years to a president-&-cashier's job in the Oakland Bank. There Banker Giannini discovered him in 1921, plucking him out to make him head of the Oakland branch of Bank of Italy...
In the green Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts nestle a knot of towns-Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington- whose natives are hardheaded Yankees, whose summer colonists are sedate, aristocratic New Englanders and Manhattanites. Two of the swankest, most comfortable hotels in the neighborhood are Heaton Hall and the Red Lion Inn...
To prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite...