Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to judge the comparative strength of the visiting 150-pound crews which are to match strokes over the Henley at 5 o'clock. Yale usually has a dependable light-weight eight, while Princeton, the winner of last year's triangular contest at Derby, Conn., is sure to offer stubborn competition this afternoon...
...Crimson through many tight holes as a relief pitcher. Clyde Engel and Bill Grimes, the former Dartmouth pitcher, have assisted this week with the coaching, giving special attention to Moseley, who is considered one of the most promising boxmen on the Freshman team. Today, however, he faces the stubborn opposition of a team that has been coached with the Freshman game as an objective, and he will need all his speed and control to bring a Crimson victory. HARVARD 1926 WOSCESTER McGlone, s.s. l.f., Sprague Knowlton, 2b. c.f., Hull Slayton, 3b s.s., Debecker Todd, clf. 3b., O'Connell Field...
...often reported captured or wounded, has eluded the government's grasp so long and fought on against ever increasing odds passes comprehension. Whether his object was dictated by mere selfish ambition or by fanatical zeal, even those who have no liking for him must pay some respect to his stubborn courage. But he has now withdrawn his foreign ambassadors, proclaimed a cessation of hostilities, and produced his conditions of surrender so that Ireland can at last heave a vast sigh of relief...
There were "feline amenities" in plenty among what the Capital papers term "our DARling DARters". Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. Winkle and Miss Tupman, each with a "ticket" all her own, fought with stubborn bitterness for the President-Generalship. The "most aristocratic ladies in the country" argued and expostulated for long hours on their relative merits adjourned to drink innumerable cups of tea, and returned to cast their ballots and lose their dignity. When feelings ran high Miss Tupman suddenly withdrew to throw her weight-hardly a lady-like performance-to Mrs. Snodgrass, and pandemonium broke loose...
...engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky and speculative methods of Wall Street railroad amalgamation, whose excesses were justified only by their aggregate brilliant results, he had an inherent mistrust. He was a stubborn fighter but invariably a good loser. His resentment of the prohibition amendment, and his efforts for its repeal, were characteristic of his sturdy individualism...