Word: stubbornness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years ago he decided to experiment on stubborn cases of osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis is an infectious inflammation of the bone marrow or of the marrow and the bone. The bone rots, and then adjacent flesh. It is more common in children than in adults. It is difficult to cure. If unrestrained it may kill quickly or may last for years. The usual treatment is to cut out the decayed bone and flesh, often repeatedly...
...cities. Says he: "I have written to little purpose if I have not demonstrated that the third degree is much more than merely an occasional or a secondary weapon in the hands of the police; it is actually the main reliance of the police in obtaining information from stubborn prisoners. . . . The only place where no protection can be guaranteed [to the freeborn U. S. citizen] is in the police station. Once you pass its green lights you are beyond...
...Freshman football team and Worcester Academy fought to a score- less tie in a field of mud and slime on the Freshman gridiron of Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The contest was fiercely fought and both elevens showed a stubborn defensive play...
...Problem) which incensed politicos. Mr. Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take up a recess appointment. A more stubborn man might have tried to brazen out this local criticism but not Nominee Roosevelt who explained in his letter of resignation...
...Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear eye. He has written many books. Some of them: The A B C of Relativity, Education and the Good Life, Problems of Philosophy, Proposed Roads to Freedom, Why Men Fight, Marriage and Morals (TIME...