Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test came last week. Armed with a court decision, police dispersed picket lines at three mills (Whitman, Nonquit, Nashawena). By afternoon of the same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
Finally, let able Jumper Hoyt state why he jumped. TIME assumes him to possess a better reason than that given by one Elsie Ekengren, 17-year-old schoolgirl, who told reporters that after making his acquaintance on shipboard she girlishly cried, "I dare you to jump overboard," whereupon Jumper Hoyt jumped...
...business of Tibet has fallen into ruin. A pitiful hut is described, in official documents as "a snowy palace." . . . In the big villages there is not a single store. . . . "In twilight people come to you begging you to sell them something but they do not dare to trade openly. . . . It is dreadful to think that the name of Buddha is intermingled with all this dirt, physical and spiritual...
...insolence to name the Times or any other "great newspaper,"-well, he would find out what a libel suit was like. "Produce," wrote Publisher Ochs,† "a single example of a 'great newspaper' which is subservient to advertisers . . . name newspaper and owner." Name, if he dare, the New York Times. Name Adolph S. Ochs...
...Natural Philosophy Winners!" a new era will have begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms...