Word: gallant
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...from the shelves of Lamont, were apparently chosen to justify the library's ban on women. The Useless Sex. The Anti-Sex. The Subjection of Women, and All Women are Fatal are prominently displayed. One of the cases contains on edition of Pierre de Bourdeille's. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, suggestively opened to "Fourth Essay--On Married Women, Widows and Girls to ascertain which class of them is botter in love than the others...
...comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from...
...Never before have I heard such irrational, irresponsible, insulting and repugnant language in these chambers-and language used, if you please, contemptuously to impugn and slander a gallant and successful effort to save human lives of many nationalities and colors...
...both the 800 meters and the metric mile (1,500 meters) - and then he announced that he intended to clip more than 4 sec. off his mile record by running the distance in 3 min. 50 sec. Last week, before 20,000 homefolks in Auckland, Snell gave it a gallant try. Ranged against him were Czechoslovakia's Josef Odlozil, silver-medal winner in the Olympic 1,500, and New Zealand's own John Davies, who won the bronze. With the possible exception of the U.S.'s Dyrol Burleson and Tom O'Hara, they were the class...
...think that this whole 3-D business was just a practical joke and a poor one at that. Such a stunt could have seriously injured someone; we feel that you owe the whole University an apology. Faiga Brussell '67 Ellen Gallant '66 Inray Nagel...