Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represented, with full Russian moustachies, as holding a replica of the cedar ball which the chief used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...
Striving to cover up Nazidom's most spectacular admission of failure to master German economic problems, Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, printed these brave words: "We National Socialists do not believe in economic laws. We believe in the creative ability of our race. Because we believe in this power of our race, economics is subject to our creative ability...
...Alston Chase's article on "The World and the Faculty" is a brave bombshell. It was aimed, perhaps, at too many separate marks for a single bombshell, and will seem, to some bystanders at least, to have exploded without major damage to anyone. In the preamble, Mr. Conant is accused of leading, in the name of what seems to Mr. Chase piffling scholarship, an "Albigensian crusade" against good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their...
...wildly enthusiastic crowd hustled the brave Bishop into his automobile, swept the police and S. S. troops aside, trotted beside the car all the way to his house shouting "Heil Meisser! Pfui Müller!" Another crowd stayed by the church, solemnly chanting Martin Luther's great "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott...
...precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part...