Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent in 1922 to 5.54 per cent for January of this year, which argues that the roads are on the way to recovery and should be let alone. The conflict of interests involving the big roads, the weak roads, the Government, the public, and railroad labor is still so stubborn and at the same time so obscured by propaganda and counter-propaganda that only the future can decide the outcome of the issue. Security holders, who have the most to lose by Government operation, are anxiously watching the earning rate. If it continues to improve the Government bogy will disappear...
...shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter only made for sullenness and stubborn reaction, while the former at least encouraged thought and reasoning self-correction. If the horse that has been led to the water will not drink, it is no one's concern but his own. And beating him is such a tiring job anyway...
During the entire last period, the teams seemed evenly matched, with neither apparently able to gain any marked advantage over the other. Excellent goal guarding, as well as stubborn defense play and speedy forward-line work prevented any further scoring...
...endowed organization has had its difficulties with clauses made to fit one set of conditions, and made inflexible against all change by their binding nature. A simple phrase, "at the discretion of the administrator", makes a will adaptable to circumstances, but testators are sometimes careless and often stubborn, and without some such loophole even the courts are powerless...
...people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost unanimous choice and in monotonous regularity, reelected to the Senate. That is--if he is Robert La Follette...