Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chocolate-brown Julian the olive-skinned Emperor's command seemed unreasonable, sinister. How could he stunt successfully a ship he had never flown before? He decided that the lesser risk was to brave imperial wrath, go up for at least one practice flight...
...dear old Rutgers." He was captain of the football team which played Princeton in 1892, the game in which the speech-long attributed to Captain Brett and various other members of the team -originated. Last week the Rutgers Alumni Association announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that his training days were over, reached for a cigaret, told his teammates: "I'd die to win this...
...affairs of the country. There are many who have the desire but not the means for political education. It becomes obvious, especially after political elections, that the democratic form of government stands or falls by the amount and quality of that education. A Liberal Club can accomplish little by brave gestures of communism or undergraduate tracts on political situations, but it can do much to further a knowledge of contemporary problems...
Casey Jones, as all right-thinking men know, was a brave engineer. Minnesinger Shay tacks no embroidery on his tale, contents himself with reprinting a version of the famed ballad beginning, "Come all you rounders if you want to hear...
Igloos are gradually disappearing as the Eskimos build neat wooden houses to take their place. Flowers are being cultivated-think of that in Greenland! Some of the Eskimo women are becoming interested in window boxes. During the summer, I can tell you, they make a brave, bright show!" Not so backward as many people suppose, the Eskimos of Greenland publish two newspapers (monthlies) in Eskimo...