Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brave men on that train," he cried. "How many will answer the roll call...
...28th and the next two holes while Goodman, control gone, took 1 over pars for each. The next three they halved. At the 34th green Somerville holed out in one putt for a birdie 3. Goodman, short on his second shot, had to pitch on the green, take a brave par 4. They halved the next in par 3's to make Charles Ross ("Silent Sandy") Somerville the second alien ever to hold the U. S. amateur title. The other was Britain's Harold Hilton (Apawamis...
...shamelessness in refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five...
Meanwhile the Rotterdam strike left Dutch shipping completely constricted. Despite brave announcements from the New York office that the strike would not affect sailings of the Holland America Line, neither the Rotterdam nor the Volendam was able to leave her home port last week. A government commission announced that it could settle the strike if owners agreed to maintain the present wage scale until March. Only five companies agreed...
Spain's republican government last week faced one of the most difficult decisions of its career. It had to decide what to do with General Jose Sanjurjo, the brave, paunchy Monarchist who, fortnight prior, had seized Seville in an attempt to put Prince Juan Carlos, third son of ex-King Alfonso, on the throne (TIME, Aug. 22). On trial before the Supreme Court in Madrid, General Sanjurjo lived up to his reputation for indifference in the face of danger. He listened quietly while old Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been...