Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing about the seven o'clock bell is that the bellringer dislikes it at least as much as do the students. The average undergraduate soon acquires the habit of sleeping tranquilly until about eight-thirty, bell or no bell--but there is the poor bellringer, tugging away at the stubborn rope, shortly after the coldest hour of the night. And apparently, Mr. Conant is not too enthusiastic about...
...Freshman sextet added another to its string of one-sided victories yesterday afternoon at the Arena by routing the Cambridge Latin School combination 8 to 0. The schoolboys did not offer stubborn enough opposition to test the Crimson skaters on the defense, but there was a noticeable improvement on the attack...
...Club in Boston, where tomorrow's match will be played. The championship hinges in a large measure upon this contest, which is the last for the Crimson on a foreign court. A victory will give Harvard a commanding lead, but the Tennis and Racquet players are certain to furnish stubborn opposition. There will be one change in the line-up of the University team. E. M. Upjohn '25 will replace R. P. Rose '25 at number five...
...idea has practically been entirely swallowed. Almost the only objections audible come from undergraduates when the system goes into effect and night is turned partly into day. Yet even this is readily forgiven since the event is the immediate forerunner of vacation. Even if man is a conservative and stubborn animal, time and such "even-handed justice" will eventually dislodge him from his moss...
...HOUSE OF ALARD- Sheila Kaye-Smith-Dutton ($2.00). Here is another lengthy, careful study of the decay of an English county family by the author of Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...