Word: bulldogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles Times's single-handed fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam. On the surface this does not seem to be much of a cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity. In fact, its bulldog tenacity and unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy...
...which set a record for distance covered in northwest Canada-7,000 miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole. Stampeding musk oxen almost ran down a guide. And bears definitely stole the meat the party had hung for safekeeping between trees. Trophies for the American Museum...
...farm near Carrollton, Ga., Nathan Brown was stung by a bumblebee, ran toward his house, was bitten by a green snake, headed for town, was bitten by a bulldog, pulled into town in a bad humor...
...Bulldog combine trailed on the small end of an 8-3 score half-way through the match, and only a terrific scoring drive by Peter Grace, number 3 of the Yale team, evened the score in the next two chukkers...
...Lincoln can follow the example set last year by Captain Eddie Loughlin in setting down the Elis 3-2, Harvard will cinch second place in Eastern competition regardless of how the Bulldog and Tiger make out against each other tomorrow...