Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand Japanese and squads of police stood on the docks at Kobe last week to watch a brave little old gentleman come home to what he believes certain assassination. The performance began almost immediately...
...contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse god in his twilight. "Past and Present," one of the fifty volumes left behind by this man whose cardinal virtue was silence, will be discussed this morning at 9 by Professor Rollins...
...seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured him he knew death came next, was ready to take it with a stiff upper lip. But just as his head was dragged back against the execution stone, as the tomahawks were raised, young Pocahontas, Powhatan's daughter, dashed forward and flung...
Lockhart met Lenin infrequently, Trotsky often. He thinks Lenin was extraordinarily impersonal, coldly logical; Trotsky brave, bitter, emotional; both able. No friend to the Tsarist regime (". . . unparalleled inefficiency and corruption. No other nation would have stood the privations which Russia stood for anything like the same length of time"), Lockhart admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat, got in hot water with his colleagues and his government for holding out strongly against intervention. Finally he changed his mind, thus losing the Bolsheviks' confidence without gaining anybody else's. When Lenin was shot the Bolsheviks arrested Lockhart as a spy, held...
...energetic moments, and played a good tactical game on the offense, but it was at times slower than the outfit from Old Nassau, and often confused by a trick attack of the visitors in which the wings crossed over and exchanged positions. Lady Luck and a very brave deGive in the Harvard nets kept the visitors from scoring on the Crimson during 16 minutes of the third period, when Harvard was continually on the defense, after clinching the winning score...