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Blind and stubborn reaction will not solve the problem, but will create class hatred instead. Today a man is not a "prince of privilege" because he is wealthy or because he is president of a large corporation, but he does become one when he becomes an anti-social force, and uses his power to further his own ends at the expense of those over whom he has control...
Tops on the Pacific Coast, having beaten U.C.L.A., Oregon State, California, and Oregon on successive Saturdays, University of Washington slam-banged its way 70 full yards in the last quarter to stubborn Stanford's 1-ft. line, then fumbled. Later they marched 68 yards to score, but that was not enough. Washington 14, Stanford...
...Bank of Manhattan buildings. River side Church, Lincoln Hospital. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Local No. 40. He and his German wife have two young sons. He likes to talk about steelwork, his sons, his dog. He is boisterous, friendly, stubborn, generous. In Iron Men he shinnies up a vertical girder, using only his hands and his knees. During rehearsals he put in two or three-days' work on Fordham Hospital's new morgue building to keep his hand...
...would seem the young Englishman grows quickly in mind but leaves his morals for others to develop. (On the other hand I've seen some corking good wall scalers!) How much of this proctoral jurisdiction serves to continue a rich tradition and how much of it to encourage a stubborn hypocrisy is, I suppose, a matter of whether you prefer mutton or frankfurters...
...responsibility." Loyal to his friends even after their dishonesty was proved, Grant blocked the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary had been convicted of accepting bribes, and during the Whiskey Ring exposure, when his confidential secretary Babcock was on trial, only the stubborn interference of Fish and other Cabinet officers prevented Grant from rushing to St. Louis to defend his disgraceful assistant in person...