Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country. . . . After all, it is Congress which will pass the tax bill-not the Treasury Department, nor the National Chamber...
...Providence, R. I., newspaper reporter had stuck his nose-for-news into Caldwell's mount ing fame, reported how he had played for Brown as a freshman before entering Yale. By Yale's dual contract with Princeton and with Harvard, Caldwell can play no more Yale football. He can, however, play basketball & baseball in the winter & spring. †the same rules apply as in regular football except that it is unnecessary to tackle - a runner-with-the-ball...
...sides I find people, I am sorry to say, against Harvard because they think she is so "stuck up", and I feel that in our lack of proper, recognition of our opposing Colleges in our Band music and in our songs gives a real basis for this feeling...
...pioneer, the end of his usefulness came with the complete acceptance of his once radical innovations. Others explored further the implications of his ethical code. The Bergers and Capones of Cicero went on to machine gunnery, gas, bombs and airplanes. In the mad race for the new "Little Augie" stuck to his guns. And so he died when bullets sought and found him among the pushcarts of the East Side, died under the rules of self-preservation that he had made, died a martyr to his own conservatism...
...name?" He grinned "Well, my real one is Edwin, but I had an aunt who thought that was too long or something, so she started calling me 'Poodles' when I was three days old, for no particular reason, and it certainly has stuck. I even sign checks with it, and they're good checks...