Word: mulish
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
Mules never leave their subterranean coal-faced galleries except when their masters, the operators, expect long idleness. When, therefore, it was observed that most of the mulish multitude had been brought to the surface (including the mules of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., whose head, Samuel D. Warriner, is also head of the Anthracite Operators Association), the implication was obvious...