Word: stubbornness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hope of effecting contact with her husband, that his attempt to Houdinize-himself from the (a) spirit world has been a failure, that this is another proof that Spiritualism is all fakery. Spiritualists retorted that it proved nothing. Some even charged that Houdini's spirit is being stubborn...
...Curtius' legalistic interpretation!" In fact, as everyone knows. Prime Minister Andre Tardieu is popular at Paris very largely because Frenchmen believe that he obtained the right of sanctions at The Hague. On the other hand, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, who was matched against the shrewd Tardieu and the stubborn little Snowden, feels that he came off with the best deal possible under the circumstances, and is never tired of reminding his fellow Germans that France has agreed to take sanctions only in case the world court has first ruled that Germany is willfully defaulting on her reparations payments...
Having shut Captain Stone of M. I. T. from a possible second place by injuries inflicted in the bout, Solano added another fall to his list of eight consecutive tumbles for the season. Although outclassed by the Crimson wrestler, Stone showed a stubborn resistance...
...economy, balancing the budget without foreign loans, foreign conciliation, restoration of the gold standard, was delighted. Delighted too, were foreign observers at the London Naval Conference. It was felt that with the Minseito party so firmly re-established in power, the Japanese naval delegates could make concessions in their stubborn demands, need not fear popular indignation at a little wise yielding...
...allow designers to copyright their creations. A copyright is almost automatically secured by depositing a work of art (book, picture, music), and $2 with the Library of Congress. To prove that even shoes may be art, there appeared before the committee, last week, Mary Evelyn ("Fiji") Bendelari, 27, stubborn, fuzzy-haired Paris-New York shoe designer, originator of the Deauville sandal...