Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the major parties thus gradually converging, liberalism would be politically somnolent were it not for the stubborn resistance which the Western insurgents have offered to the Administration. By providing for a "Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
...makes my blood boil to have our Government tax honest French girls to pay the debts of France to these stubborn Americans. . . . I urge that France be credited on her debt with three francs each time an American gets drunk in Paris. Then it will soon be that the United States will owe money to France...
...University will present a strengthened line-up tomorrow night if Gross, regular left wing, is sufficiently recovered to play. The speedy forward has had a four-day rest and will make the trip today. The remainder of the squad is in good condition after their stubborn fight against the Varsity squad. Captain Cumings played a strong game in the victory over the Tigers last year and judging by his goal tending this season the Nassau offense will have trouble in finding the Crimson net tomorrow night. Coach Bigelow will probably start the same players again although it is uncertain whether...
...Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. And furthermore Town Topics saith the Vice President has a "stubborn streak"; he will not be submerged in the brilliance of the Chief Executive...
...last king fell; the last knight rode out in a desperate and vain sortie, defying the white death that comes in the end to the gallantest chevalier and the most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME...