Word: grit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar occurrence gained national publicity last month for a publication called Grit. It was in Grit that a North Carolina youngster spotted a picture of President Hoover's strangely missing friend Col. Raymond Robins, leading to the discovery and return of Col. Robins (TIME, Nov. 28). Proudly last fortnight Grit celebrated its 50th birthday...
People either know Grit intimately or know nothing whatever about it. Many a wide reader would be astonished to hear that Grit, besides being a half-century old, has a claimed circulation of some 425,000 in 48 States. 83% of its circulation in towns of less than 10,000 population...
...headed youngster named Carl Byrd Fisher often took walks in the hills with Whittier's stranger. In a rural magazine called Grit the boy saw a picture of Col. Raymond Robins, wealthy Chicago Prohibitor who had been strangely missing since he left New York Sept. 3 to lunch with his good friend President Hoover at the White House (TIME, Sept. 19). Grit readers were advised to notify Salmon Oliver Levinson, famed Chicago attorney, if they saw a man resembling the photograph. Last week Carl Fisher wrote Mr. Levinson that he suspected "Reynolds Rogers" was "your man." Mr. Levinson turned...
Just so much grit in so many gear-boxes are most themes in most novels. A brilliant exception to this rule is Author Christiansen's Inter-Scandinavian prize novel Two Living and One Dead. So dextrously is its theme amalgamated with its characters that readers will find it impossible to formulate the one without telling the whole story of the others...
...judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes are in certain measure apart from the rest of the undergraduate body. More than an exhibition of grit and spirit is now expected by the student spectator, who feels that the purchase of a ticket guarantees him a spectacle with the players as performers...