Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
...Brave steps were made to calm public fears. The Chicago Daily News found encouragement in the fact that if all the resources of all Chicago banks were placed in $20 gold pieces they would fill a 30-foot street for 3½ miles, that if they were placed in solid silver they would pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood...
...they swooped over the College, brave and resplendent in the blaze of glory that gleams from all the toys of modern warfare, we heard a freshman say, "Well, it's the Air Service for mine in the next war." We wondered how many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world...
...Brave though everyone knows the Prince of Wales to be, the Argentine public has been watchful and excited these past few weeks about reports that before H. R. H. left Argentina he would go for a reckless, roaring spin in Miss England...
...their faces, rise in their tatters from the grave? There would be 13,000,000 more mouths for the world to feed, 13,000,000 extra jobs to be found, 13,000,000 social readjust- ments to be made. Would the world which now mourns them welcome back the brave from their sleep? With such portentous questions as these is Miracle at Verdun, the Theatre Guild's latest opus, concerned. To produce its ambitious piece, the Guild has employed a triple cinema screen, three sound-film projectors, seven scenes, 17 loudspeakers, a company of 50 actors...