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Word: braved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink, down, down, past goggling fish with drifting films of tails, past ribbons of ruffled seaweed, purple and brown," but she would be brave, she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virile Tang | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis...

Author: By H. M. R. jr., | Title: Epic Breadth and Grandure | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous store held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: My Fellow Vermonters. . . . | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Brave Chinese. "Chang Tsung-chang, off to the Chinese battlefront, waves good-bye to 20 wives and concubines, promising to come back victorious. Anemic Westerners can only admire Chang's courage and verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Ladies whom he began marrying young, when he was a gang coolie, include Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians and Mongolians. Win or lose, that's a brave Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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