Word: stubborn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...basic human, relations, between man and woman, and between parent and child, there have been changes so striking that when we read novels of a century ago we feel we are in another world; but when we try to fit laws to society as it is we meet with stubborn resistance. It is as if men were frightened to see how far they have departed from the ways of their fathers and how impossible lit was to go back, and had therefore determined to hold fast to something. Religion, paternal authority, the family, all may go; but at least...
...penalized by the Government. The result was that hoarders rushed to the Reserve banks to exchange their gold for paper money. Fortnight ago gold flowed out at the rate of more than $40,000,000 per day. Last week it was flowing back at about the same rate. Some stubborn hoarders, wise to the law, knew they had obtained their gold legally before March 6 and that the U. S. had no Constitutional power to punish them retroactively. Irenée du Pont & wife turned in at Wilmington a 20-year collection of gold pieces paid him for attending board...
...speedy answer. Such incldents as these, and the ill-feeling and organized protest stirred up, show not nearly the touchiness and independence of the student body, but more particularly the need of a saner policy on the part of the college and student councils in place of the present stubborn and antagonistic attitude...
...English Parliament has accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late constituted their chief claim to importance...
...Cabinet of that stylish Paris Lawyer Maître Paul-Boncour was falling -on the issue of this year's budget which French Deputies have threshed with increasing futility for two weeks (TIME, Jan. 30). Final debate dragged through 22 hours. When famed Papa Henri Chéron, stubborn old Norman Finance Minister, demanded an "absolute [balanced] budget" at the cost of drastic tax uppings and salary slashes, he was met by arguments for what was called a "relative budget...