Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last hopes of Chicago and Michigan of winning the "Big Ten" Conference championship vanished Saturday. Ohio defeated Michigan by 14 to 7, block-minutes of play, while Illinois won a stubborn battle from Chicago by 3 to 0. As Ohio has no game this week, it will face Illinois in the crucial game two weeks away with a clean slate. The Illinois, how-ever, must defeat the strong Wisconsin eleven next Saturday to enjoy a like prestige. The Illini are favorites over the Badgers, but Ohio is picked to win the final game and the championship for a second year...
...occasion, it is necessary for them to enlist the sympathy of the rest of the country. It is here that they will meet their Waterloo. The English will not be stampeded. They realize that the government has been unusually fair in its offers and that the miners have been stubborn. The sympathy enlisted will be in direct ratio to the success that radical propaganda has had. It will be a test case...
...grounds of intelligent expediency the President should compromise with the Senate on a set of mild, mutually satisfactory reservations, no matter how superfluous they may be. Posterity would vindicate such a stand on his part. But his present attitude can only stamp him as small, stubborn and out of touch with the electorate...
...addition to every college curriculum. In these days of economic and social extremists and political confusion any aid to a more balanced viewpoint is worth a trial. Whether the new study at Columbia will really uproot the cruder and more stupid forms of radicalism as well as the more stubborn tendencies of conservatism among immature students is open to grave doubts. But the principle is right...
...cruder and more stupid forms of radicalism, early instruction in the facts relating to the origin and development of modern civilization and the part that time plays in building and perfecting human institutions is of the greatest value. For those college students who are affected with the more stubborn forms of conservatism early appreciation of the fact that movement and development are characteristic of life and that change may be constructive as well as destructive is most desirable...