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...readers who have followed Vardis Fisher to this fourth and final volume of his autobiographical novel, his hero's complete candor in showing himself at times a stubborn fool, a dreary bore, a nearly crazy introspect, will end by impressing them with his struggle for honesty. In the earlier books his wrestling to be free from his Nessus' shirt was more painful to watch than not. Now that he has got it mostly off, the scarified body shows sturdy if not beautiful...
Maybe you did get a little warm, but then who wouldn't get burned watching them stand up there being stubborn, all about a little old oath that even a first grader could memorize like nothing...
...defense men Jim Roberts played the stellar game, paving the way for Hovenanian's tally. With Dick Claflin he put up a stubborn defense that kept the Tigers under the leash for most of the struggle. Thorny Brown did his part, and although Ash Emerson was responsible for the first Tiger goal, he deflected the third period shots that would have turned the game over to Princeton...
...cross-section plan for the Houses has been tried and proved--a failure. Stubborn facts are jutting out of an atmosphere long wrapped in mystery. Many men leave their Houses voluntarily because they find them no more attractive than boarding-houses, and equally devoid of friends. Despite heroic efforts, the Committee which governs the placing of Freshmen has found it impossible to dam up entirely a natural and preferable course of events. A few of the Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These...
...reorganization plans to Nashville's Federal District Judge John J. Gore, who refused to approve them on the ground that they required coercion of a majority of the creditors. The case turned on the point that 77-B not only provides a means of clubbing a stubborn minority into line if two-thirds of the creditors of each class agree to a reorganization plan, but also that, under certain conditions, it permits a Federal judge to club a stubborn majority if the plan seems to him fair & equitable. This might be the statute, said Judge Gore...