Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor...
But Coach O'Donnell's eleven is not only reported to be strong, it is strong. Any team that can hold Fordham to a 7 to 9 triumph soon after the latter's convincing victory over N. Y. U. is not to be regarded as a pushover. According to a...
The Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern...
"Well, you should know," answered the skipper of the Shawnee. The boat turned on her searchlight and signalled the Coast Guard cutter Gresham to approach. The Shawnee plowed on, pumping out the water that the waves poured in through the shell holes. For a whole day Coast Guard vessels dogged...
So tired that they had mostly ceased to curse, 400 disgusted correspondents from 30 countries waited morosely, one chill midnight last week, in the dank stone courtyard of the Palace of the Counts of Holland. They had had only sandwiches for dinner. So had Chancellor of the British Exchequer Philip...