Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves in the jungle, set up their picture takers, and invited the animals to "see the birdie." Their reels reveal that alligators, elephants, wild-beasts, ostriches, zebras, water buffalo, giraffes, antelopes, and lions saw the birdie. Close-ups of these various beasts in their natural state required superhuman patience, stubborn tenacity, certain courage. Parents who take their children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed.- Simba is the native term for lion. The native hunt for this king of beasts in which black...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...
Ultra-Truculents. Exile to rot in Siberia was the sentence enforced, last week, upon the little known, ultra-truculent, blindly conservative group, formerly led in the Communist party by Comrade Sapronov. This stubborn band of heroes or madmen have braved threats of exile for years, and were the "opposition" when Trotsky was still "regular...
Flashing a strong attack in the opening period of its game with Milton Academy, the Freshman hockey team continued its winning streak by triumphing over the schoolboys in a shutout contest. The final score was 3 to 0. The driving offense of the Crimson players was met with stubborn resistance by the Milton team, effectively enough until near the close of the first period, when P. H. Watts '31 broke through the preparatory school's defense to score...