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...shrewd, stubborn and adroitly tactful that the other members of the jury presently come round to her way of thinking. A real estate salesman, a garage mechanic, the proprietor of a Greek restaurant and two gibbering intellectuals are easy for her to deal with. An Irish cook is less tractable until Mrs. Crane promises her a job. When she has convinced all of her peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime...
...giant's trail. Shutters and doors in Essex and Hamilton counties clapped apprehensively shut while the chase went forward.* After a 72-hour search, the pursuers sighted a huge, dark figure silhouetted against the snow, a man without snowshoes making incredible speed through the deep, stubborn drifts. It was their man. He came to bay inside an abandoned lumber mill...
...Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia?war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...
...tubercle bacillus which attacks cows needs a different culture environment from the tubercle bacillus which attacks human beings, and both need different cultures from the bacillus which causes diphtheria. This philosophy has been too precious for most bacteriologists to accept. For that reason, but more so for his stubborn secrecy and his able publicity, they have maligned Bacteriologist Spahlinger. He for his part has been micrometrically deliberate at his labors, and by no means frank...
Forester Clark '29, former Harvard polo star, was the mainstay of the opposition, leading his team and scoring a great many of its goals. The game was full of exciting ride-off duels, slashing, hooking, and stubborn goal line molees. The first chukker was one of stiff riding and brilliant saves for both sides, with W. F. Luton '33 and Crispin Cooke '32 gallantly holding off the better-mounted cavalrymen until the last minute of the period when Burrage poked through a goal from a stick-clicking scrimmage in which Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 lost his mallet...