Word: stalwarts
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Among the rebellious rump of doctors, some were bitter-enders. Said one 63-year-old stalwart: "I'm an individualist. I'd rather cut my throat than sell my free dom." Said a smart practitioner with a large country practice: "I serve both my bank balance and my patients by staying out. There's no call for cheap services here, save for chauffeurs and gardeners...
...Prentice series, which was an annual affair before 1925, when the alternate-year plan was adopted, has gone the Americans' way in seven of the 12 meetings. In 1939, three stalwart Crimson stars paced the Harvard-Yale forces to a decisive victory in England...
George Hanford's stalwart stick-wielders have high hopes of ther ability to beat the Tufts men, after a promising informal game yesterday with the Boston Lacrosse Club, and the walloping they gave to New Hampshire last Saturday. Tufts was recently mangled, 18 to 0 by Exeter...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...
...proved to be the worst defeats of the campaign, as the tired Crimson went down, 13 to 6 and 10 to 3, on successive nights. In the opener, the offense couldn't seem to get organized, despite two tallies each by Dave Key and Myles Huntington, and only the stalwart net defense of Bill Yetman kept the score from running into three figures. The next night Yetman was forced to take the ice with an injury, while the team again failed to find itself offensively...