Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expedition from Harvard and Technology has been organized, and will sail from New York next Saturday. It is estimated authoritatively that the members have one chance in three to come back alive. The men who have volunteered have not done so in any spirit of bravado or adventure, but with a full realization of what they will have to face. Another force of a hundred and fifty will be organized, and those who volunteer for it should remember exactly what dangers they are running, and what conditions they will meet...
...start and mild amusement, the native boldness with which you have suggested a *frappe with our hither to unbeaten septette of picked icemen. It is not so much the mild effrontery try and subtle brazenness of this offer which has caused our cynicism, as the air of dauntless bravado with which a spirited journal can afford to ignore a succession of ignoble crushing and yet rise once more, weak and giddy, only to be pushed once more between the ropes...