Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glad that this [Athletic] association is prospering throughout the East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education...
...anonymous author of "Debating" says, that in this matter we are "stubborn as mules." Let us beware, lest in trying to avoid the "sophomoric" and "claptrap," we err on the other side, and be charged with possessing some other undesirable qualities, besides stubbornness, of the above-mentioned animal...