Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors were clearly superior on both the attack and defence although the Crimson twelve showed a stubborn fight throughout the first half which limited the Orange team to three hard-earned scores...
...ability really to perceive is an elementary requirement, but it is developed only by conscious effort. The ability to express ones self clearly is not so common as is generally inferred; back of it there must be some clarity of thought processes, and anyone who has argued with a stubborn and illogical opponent will hesitate to say that such clarity is universal. And the last point, that of knowing how to get the facts, is not open to controversy; this knowledge, and the faculty of being a walking encyclopedia, have been the opponents in the recent discussion of Mr. Edison...
...previous records last fall and during the past few weeks, A. C. M. 1 appears the logical winner, but the first experienced football eight, outweighing its rivals 15 pounds to the man, has already proved its capacity for speed and endurance in several practice brushes and should furnish stubborn resistance. The inexperienced football men exhibited a flash of form last Friday when they gained a marginal decision of three feet over...
...unique. They are put in pairs, and a yoke is simply placed across their necks with projections hanging down on either side, but not fastened below. Obviously, in order to escape, all one of the beasts needs to do is to lower his head; but by a sort of stubborn pride they always bear their heads high, and are never known to escape. We have found Ilama bones in many of the potsherds unearthed, notably in the vicinity of the sacred temple; and we constantly find tracings of pairs of Ilamas carved in the rock and as ornament on buildings...
There is no sport that calls for greater determination or more stubborn resolve than cross-country running, or one which, at the same time, builds to a greater extent both of these valuable characteristics during the period of training...