Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflicts on men a total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...
...Colonel Lindbergh, for his brave andl unselfish efforts to assure peace for our country, certainly is the Man of the Year...
...what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
Victory hungry Elis were forced into extreme action this week after visiting team upon visiting team had taken the toll of the dog-house dwelling Yale bulldogs. In fact the Yale News tells of five seniors who have vowed to brave the elements in the cupola on Davenport College until the Blue eleven has a taste of victory...
BERGEN, Norway--Captain Joseph A. Gainard of the American steamer City of Flint conferred tonight with Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U.S. Minister to Norway, as to whether the ship will brave new dangers in the war zone or speed home to the United States...