Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the President has been supporting the theoretically right method is not the point. If he should continue his hitherto uncompromising attitude, the aid which must be given without delay will be definitely withheld; for a stubborn Senate is notoriously more unbending than an obstinate President. In a crisis any aid is better than none. The future must be left to take care of itself and the present need satisfied in the most expedient...
...into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain it may, for the ultimate public good...
...placid, smiling man, Dr. Albert Einstein, walked slowly up & down the streets of Pasadena, Calif, last week. According to his usual custom he wore no hat. His stubborn hair stood on end, its whiteness making his brown eyes seem black. He probably did not realize that the U. S. scientists who occasionally join him in his daily stroll hold their own hats at their sides out of deference to him. Dr. Einstein had been in Pasadena for three weeks. His Frau Elsa had established him comfortably in a seven-room English bungalow. Every morning he works in his study...
...granted to the Occidental Press (TIME, Dec. 1). Hero of this scoop was Correspondent Eugene Lyons of the United Press. Last week the United Press proudly relayed Correspondent Lyons' story of his story, harking back more than a year when he began his siege of Stalin's stubborn silence...
Although M. Vauthier is a Liberal, the Brussels Liberal Federation last week censured his act and. when he remained stubborn, his fellow liberal ministers and Prime Minister Henri Jaspar called at the Royal Palace, informed His Majesty that they had no option except to resign...