Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long character study braced with certain small sinews of plot was the author's contribution. He visualized an old man - tyrannical, wealthy, indomitable -the apoplectic patriarch whom the world recognizes as an English gentleman. He led this stubborn ruler into a shady financial transaction to insure the future of a son of his illegitimate child. He contrived to have him caught. He served him with one ast relentless dinner in which he ate sweetbreads, drank brandy, defied the doctor, died...
...long been suspected that Yale is a breeding place of error and corruption, but it is flattering to find that no less an intellectual than the archpriest of commerce shares the view. At decent intervals the descendants of John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak...
...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
...help knowing, that the Dartmouth team, potentially powerful though it is, is still untried. A 7 to 6 battle such as Yale had with Georgia does a team more good than a half dozen runaway contests. Dartmouth's scoring machine may fall flat when it meets a stubborn defense for the first time this season...
...this year, judged on the basis of the opening contest, lacks much of the finish and power that marked last year's championship eleven. Discounting the fact that it was the opening game, the several threats of the Southern team in front of the Yale goal post and the stubborn resistance that held the Yale backs in the second period, showed that Coach T. A. D. Jones has his work cut out for him. End runs and forward passes were the most developed items in the Yale offense, the first team meeting little success in off-tackle plays. When Allen...