Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice in the initial quarter, Crimson marches were halted on the one-yard line by stubborn Terrier goal line stands. Still tenacious they stopped the Jayvee attack again in the following period on the twenty-yard marker...
...Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done...
...first half touchdown marches coupled with stubborn defensive work brought victory, 13 to 6, for Coach Henry Lamar's spirited Jayvee eleven in a game with the Northeastern Freshmen yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Lowell outplayed Adams throughout the game, but was held in the clinches by a stubborn Gold Coaster defense which stopped the Bellboy runners time and again behind the line of scrimmage...
...followed by Finland are exactly what might be expected from the nation known to them through the medium of the playing field. Aside from political, racial, and economic factors explaining the so-called natural Finish antipathy for Russia, persons familiar with Finland's national "personality" declare that her stubborn refusal to accede to Russian demands is entirely in accord with Finnish attitudes in athletics...