Word: braved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most people still think of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, as a woman who stood in shadow, queenly but helpless, brave but passive, while Henry and his gaudy parade passed her by. Actually this proud, learned and winsome daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabe11a was neither helpless nor passive...
...demonstrate that the Russians had planned to pour their troops and their Bolshevism into Germany: "It is likely that, at the last minute, Middle Europe was spared an invasion, the consequences of which cannot be conceived. The German people truly are duty bound to give deepest thanks to its brave soldiers." German figures of losses and gains, especially as to planes, had to be taken with a whole shaker of salt. But even salted down, they told a story of quite probable victory. The High Command admitted the loss of 150 planes, admitted in general "moderate losses" - instead...
...lashing their tops down with rawhide or vines, weighting them with rocks or soil, or pegging them down with stakes. From about 200 feet to a half-mile apart, their trunks paralleled a trail's direction. Rows of such trees still survive here & there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian village in the Skokie Valley five miles away...
...difference by jumping the Treasury's proposed $933,500,000 increase in corporation taxes to a whopping $1,255,200,000. It was, in short, the steepest tax bill in U. S. history-steeper by $164,900,000 than the amount Mr. Morgenthau had suggested-and a brave enough act for notoriously tax-shy Congressmen...
March on! Brave the enemy's gunfire...