Word: hardihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better fall sport has over been desire than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fall to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard Undergraduate of the past...
...first-night audience gave its usual delighted applause to Fol-De-Rol's tuneful numbers, sophisticated sets and costumes, its elaborate, manfully executed dance maneuvers. It guffawed whenever possible at Alexander Hays Lehmann's well-horsed lines, admired the direction of Graduate Jose Ferrer, applauded the trouper hardihood of Actors Richard Cowdery and Richard Baer. It also enjoyed the minor accidents incidental to a Triangle Show first night: hats falling off sighing lovers, and dummy legs falling off hobbyhorses, a mob scene's mob missing its cue, spotlights searching frantically for actors bravely singing in the dark...
Parents who worry over the fragility of children could draw comfort last week over the hardihood of Benidict Kampa of Whitehall, Wis. Just out of a hospital, Benidict was making a nice recovery after an automobile crash which tore out 4½ inches of his skull. In 1931, 4-year-old Benidict was horribly scorched when a kettle of boiling water upset on his head. In 1929, 2-year-old Benidict tripped into a hay chute, fell onto a cow, had his throat punctured by the animal's horns...
...desert regions, blazing and scorching some 8,000 ft. below the plateau toward the sea, are the Hell-Holes of Creation, inhabited by tribes of extraordinary hardihood and savagery. Explorers report that "some of these peoples have never heard of Haile Selassie." It is they who today with complete impartiality harry, snipe at and loot any small detachment of soldiers, be they Ethiopian or Italian...
...lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.-Robert Falcon Scott...