Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Combination red soap and steel wool in a green box, used by housewives to scour stubborn pots & pans) Sales, 5 mos. ending...
...oversensitive but not overintelligent monk, stimulated by the dirty church politics of his time into a rebellion which became increasingly fanatic as it became increasingly personal. Their real job was to consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown him, a stubborn, roundheaded little man, going about "his business in a country and a period where certain conditions existed, they could not have failed to suggest, by his reactions to those conditions, what sort of a fellow he was, and what sort of struggles went on in his mind. This might have been...
...Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...
...were particularly incensed by the fact that Germany's "Iron Man" made a portion of his offer conditional upon the return to the Fatherland of certain territory and colonies which she gave up by ratifying the Treaty of Versailles. Blamed by all the Allied delegates for dynamiting the committee, stubborn Dr. Schacht left Paris for a five-day visit to Berlin...
Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...