Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from savages into civilized beings, the "average educated man" may choose from a number of living soldiers of the Cross who are carrying on work of a character somewhat similar to that of the earlier heroes--such men as Dan Craw-ford in Africa, Sherwood...
...jobs, in the face of disfavor of friends and associates, and the risk that, should the deserting corps by any chance be restored they would be subjects of petty persecution, just as the conservatives were in the station houses before the strike began. These loyal policemen have played an heroic part. They deserve well of the community. Boston Herald...
Last evening's exhibition of up-to-the-minute efficiency on the part of Cambridge's heroic hook-and-ladder huskies was a most welcome diversion to such bored and exam-ridden denizens of the University who happened to be within hallooing distance of the Lampoon Building at the time...
...class of 1920 has voted to have a gateway erected in memory of the fellow members who have lost their lives in the war. Such a decision seems to me altogether inappropriate. Would it not be much better for a class to recognize the heroic sacrifice of their fellow members, passing resolutions to this effect, and by sending them to the bereaved families of these men? The erection of a memorial gateway, will only be establishing a precedent, which will very probably be followed by other classes, thereby duplicating the idea that is to be expressed in some great university...
...that the feeling between our soldiers and the French has been of the best, but there are ignorant men who believe that this country deserves most of the credit for victory. They speak of Paris being saved by "the grace of God and a few marines" and forget the heroic struggle and dreadful suffering of France during the last four years. When Foch comes here, we must make every effort to show our recognition of the fact that for forty-eight months we prospered under the protection of his country and of Great Britain and that it was his supreme...