Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last half a substitute team was held scoreless by the St. Johns eleven which kept the play in the Worcester territory most of the time. Twice they carried the ball by a series of line plunges to the five yard line, and twice they were held scoreless by the stubborn resistance of the Holy Cross line. Whether they had one or not, the Holy Cross quarterbacks revealed no aerial attack, confining the play to straight football...
...Roper staged a practice game last Saturday afternoon between his first eleven and the second string line-up. It was the first time that these two teams had opposed each other in scrimmage and the 32 minutes of actual playing time were full of action. In spite of the stubborn defense of the second team, the regulars finally emerged on the long end of a 13 to 0 score, Captain "Buzz" Stout and Caldwell carrying the ball across for two touchdowns...
...forum, the circus and the homes of the patricians were carefully and generously revived. The Italian cast, led by Rina de Liguoro, fitted favorably enough. If the drama could be deleted, the picture would make an excellent adjunct to any school's efforts to instil into the stubborn minds of students the glory and "the grandeur that was Rome...
...lost cause through eight sweltering days, through 100 torturing ballots. The wiseacre bosses of the North-well used to politics, with no illusions about the cynical, practical kind of a Game it is-after the second day of balloting shook their heads and said: "Well, it's a stubborn crowd. We won't nominate until shortly after the 50th ballot...
...politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination, for a man may be balloted for, who has not been nominated?but a proper psychological state had been created. The delegates had been worn down. Their nerves were no longer in a state to render stubborn resistance to opposing vote getters. A clever politician might now carry them off in the intoxication of fatigue...