Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to the Senate and was expected to meet stubborn opposition from the "small Navy" men. Instead, the clerk read the bill's title, the Chair asked if there was any objection. There was none. The bill was passed...
Hitherto, captured oysters have declined to breed. Where exception has been made, the young, inheriting the cold disdain of life from their ancestors, have resolutely declined to live. Along came William Firth Wells, noted oysterologist, discovered a scientific way of undermining their stubborn resistance. This is how he does...
...ordering the Turks to sign a treaty. His diplomatic antagonist, Ismet, proved tenacious, resourceful, adroit. The Turkish National Assembly refused to ratify. On April 23, 1923, the Conference reassembled. After four long months of wrangling, Ismet forced the plenipotentiaries, Greeks, French, Italian and British, to yield to his stubborn and irreducible demands. The final draft was signed in August, and did little but establish peace, regulate the number of foreign troops in Turkey and Turkish frontiers...
...Straton is a preacher of eloquence and force. Even in the face of a serious division of opinion in his own church, he lost neither his courage nor his confidence in the truth of his convictions; and although hailed by his adversaries as almost everything from a stubborn reactionary to a revolutionary sensation monger, he has remained firm in his opposition to the idea of evolution in religion. Dr. Grant believes that religion, like the majority of other things, is subject to change with the passage of time; it will be interesting to see how Dr. Straton meets this theory...
Captain Carmack and Knaess have rivalled each other in scoring honors. The latter was used at center early in the season but the Penn. coach shifted him to forward in order to make the most of his scoring powers. Dessen is the center of a stubborn five-man defense which has kept opposing scores low all the year...