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Wednesday night's 5 to 2 win over a stubborn Army sextet put the Varsity in the right frame of mind of perpetrate more sensational wins, and the facts that Yale is not inviolate and that the Crimson can win games should certainly bolster their morale as they face the Blue tonight...
...year of World War I, the German Army launched its attack on the fortress of Verdun. Although forced to yield ground, 59-year-old General Henri Philippe Pétain held Verdun and the German drive collapsed. Last week Germany found Marshal Pétain, now 84, the same stubborn tactician...
...many dour Afrikaans-speaking Boers of the Rand and the Transvaal in the Union of South Africa it was just another cause for dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers moved into the wilderness to get away from the British, to the Boer War in 1899 which kept them sullen subjects of the British Crown...
...Englishman on a weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as any in British history. Lord Halifax's problem was not, like his predecessor the late Lord Lothian's, to state Britain's case to a skeptical, suspicious U. S. The stubborn, gallant, outnumbered resistance of Britain had transformed U. S. opinion, not only about the war. but about the character of the people Lord Halifax was to represent. But if U. S. aid was to be effective, it must come quickly. And if the U. S. and Britain were to draw...
...around for five years. The FTC held hearings in a half dozen different cities (with Kidder often acting as his own lawyer to save money), finally issued a cease and desist order: stop representing that Koatsal has any lubricating value except for what oil it contains. A less stubborn man might have let this blow finish him; Kidder stuck on until he reached U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. There last fortnight he won his case. Impressive was the list of FTC blunderings which the decision made clear...