Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of educating-the faculty of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY and the educators that have graduated from this institution...CAN YOU SHOW THAT OUR HILL FARMERS ARE NOT RECEIVING BETTER ATTENTION FROM OUR COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE THAN OTHER SUCH COLLEGES GRANT THEIR FARMER-VOTERS? Please come clean on this; I dare...
John Masefield is no minor poet, yet his genius is for telling a tale. The tale has been told time and again of Arthur and his knights, of Gwenivere and her Lancelot, but never so utterly that a master craftsman dare not render his version. Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there. The variegated metres and intermittent themes are disjointed in a whole effect, but the wistful beauty of moments and moods stands out as never in earlier classics. Thus Arthur...
...think of it! The women of other countries dare the danger of the long journey to these far lands without a tremor, while, needless to say, our women sit idly at home, not so much as stepping outside their own front door. Even our men do not dare take one step toward an ambition to make a new home in distant parts...
...undersized plaid--on the whole, it would be advisable to procure two or three suits, besides extra trousers, of varied styles. The coloring should be warm. Bright reds, blues, oranges, and yellows give a genial effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast...
...present. Parliament dare not take such action, due to the continued pressure of France and Britain-Great Powers which desire that the fervent, excitable patriots of defeated Hungary shall not have a King to rally round...