Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
Almost ten years ago the United States entered the World War. Harvard men took a brave and self-sacrificing part in that conflict. After mature consideration the administration of this University decided on the form which the memorial to these men should take. Dean Briggs, in his letter to their near relatives made public on January 19, 1926, wrote, ". . . . the University which these men have honored would make their memorial a church . . . a church in which the purest and highest life of the University shall find expression; a church in which the names and records of these Harvard soldiers...
...circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya in the Cape Verde Islands the midnight before. Off the coast of Brazil the South Atlantic looked angry. The seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next day Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then...
...where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
...Brave Joseph Adam, professor of music at the state college, had the foolhardy intrepidity to offer the privilege to the native sons of becoming founders of the Montana State Symphony at $10 apiece. Rawboned Montaneers smiled, argued, complained, joined...