Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval officer, there is no denying that Horthy was able; he rose rapidly, was transferred to the General Staff, became a naval aide-de-camp to Kaiser and Konig Franz Josef. In the early part of the War, he proved himself as brave and loyal an officer as ever the Emperor had and, when the Germans crushed a mutiny at Cattaro, he proved himself astute enough to take the credit...
...beginning of the past week, Bishop William T. Manning D.D., LL.D., sent out an army of Church workers into cold streets and hot offices of the great city. They solicited U. S. dollars and cents in the brave hope of collecting $10,900,000 which is to complete the $15,000,000 fund for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. To one division of the army, Bishop Arthur S. Lloyd said...
...Louvain University in Belgium, particularly its magnicent Library-"that cradle of the finest religious and scientific thought from the earliest dawn of the Renaissance"-was part of the cost that heroic Belgium paid for opposing the Germans in 1914. It was out of admiration for Belgium's brave stand that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the people of the U. S., offered to rebuild and restock the Library...
...that sentiment seems to favor such a scheme. Memorial was built in memory of brave warriors. What is more fitting than that it should be used by people to whom war and fighting are so much at heart as the Irish...
...economic effects of the eclipse are incalculable, or would be were it not for the patient, brave, unassuming work of Business School students. It might continue, but I am sure that my point is obvious. It is business that counts in this world, and, as Harvard men, we ought to be glad that Harvard has seen the light and is now pouring into the channels of business all that great energy that once was turned, wastefully I believe, into the training of mere dreamers. The world may be comfortably divided into dreamers and schemers. The dreamers have had their...