Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross-examination of Colonel Mitchell was completed. The prosecutors questioned him point by point concerning the statements for which he is on trial for "insulting" the Army and Navy. They did not succeed in drawing from him any very damaging admissions; he stuck to his story, which was not difficult to do since mostly matters of opinion and inference were at stake. Examples of the testimony...
Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate...
Baldwin has developed a Diesel engine which, it is claimed, can be used for either light or heavy traffic. Lima so far has stuck to the steam locomotive, but has perfected a large freight engine-the A 1- which shows operating economies of 25% to 33%. American Locomotive has been experimenting even more widely...
...Republican newspapers this was too much. Why, they wanted to know, had Defense Minister Gessler allowed the Reichswehr to participate, if the unveiling was "unofficial"? Herr Gessler declared that a formal pledge was given him that the ceremony would be nonpolitical, and stuck to that alibi. Said the Socialist sheetlet Vorwaerts: "The monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither...
...think it is a fact--a regrettable fact that around Boston the majority of people are against Harvard, and I find in talking with a number of them it is because they think Harvard is "stuck up", and such an incident as this lends color to that thought...