Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That brave consequences would follow the passage of the Japanese exclusion act has come to pass. It is a pity that those senators who voted for exclusion do not have to share the difficulties that have fallen on the shoulders of Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Woods. Well can they learn a lesson of friendliness from Japan whose treatment of the American aviators, in spite of the immigration turmoil, can hardly be surpassed even in this country...
...selection of plays to be offered at its various one night stands along the road, the company has indeed been brave. He who would undertake to present W. B. Yeats and W. S. Gilbert to rural audiences whose previous experience of the drama has probably been acquired from "East Lynne" and the Number Three Company of "Uncle Tom's Oabin" is obviously a man of mettle. If Mr. Bushnell Cheney, who is playing the general part of Moses to the troupe, had not already demonstrated the practicability of his idea in a former tour, he might almost be considered...
...brave hands are clasped in strong repose...
...some fine distinctions to be observed ir, making such a definition. Mr. Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
...popularly supposed to be nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than...