Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the early centuries of Buddhist Chinese civilization. But it is as a story of adventure that the book makes its greatest appeal. The narrative romps and blusters with Mr. Warner over the long and often perilous road. Mohammedan bandits, Chinese hospitality of the old school, fiery interviews with stubborn officials, forty-course dinners, thieving innkeepers, Russian refugees, seas of mud and acres of dust traversed by caravans of jolting carts and finally by camels into the great northern desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition...
...college hockey season will get under way in Boston tonight when a strong Harvard team faces M. I. T. in what promises to be an exciting battle. A year ago the Crimson puck-chasers emerged on the long end of a 2 to 0 count only after a stubborn fight by the Engineers, and with both sextets considerably improved this year, another close game is in prospect...
...their rooms at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan. All the next day at the federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked in the War . . . 36 hours, 48 hours, 60 hours...
Three days later the Chamber of Deputies reassembled after a recess, and Premier Briand found himself once more baited by irreconcilable and stubborn "blocs" among his nominal "Coalition of the Left" supporters...
...even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...