Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years Dr. Little has been working shoulder to shoulder with Dr. Grenfell. Throughout the first three years of his service, Dr. Little was mainly occupied in doing relief work,--during the summer months on the schooner "Strathcona," in winter travelling by dog-team. Since then he has done heroic work at the hospital in Newfoundland...
...schooner "Strathcona," in winter travelling by dog-team. After his third summer, he returned to this country for a few months and then went back to take entire charge of the hospital which had been considerably enlarged. Since that time he has been at his post without vacation, doing heroic work under what were often great handicaps of insufficient help. He is Dr. Grenfell's right hand man and so important does Dr. Grenfell consider him that he will not leave the mission when Dr. Little is called away for any reason. When Dr. Grenfell is absent, Dr. Little...
...French Ambassador delivered before Phi Beta Kappa last June on Rochambeau in America. The address not only shows how much America was indebted to France for the final victory in the Revolution, but draws a vivid picture of the fighters of those days as living men and not heroic statues on the village green...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell A.M., LL.D., M.D., C.M.G. is at present Superintendent of the Labrador branch of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. On account of his heroic missionary work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador he was made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George by the late King Edward...
...Grenfell is a graduate of King's College, Oxford, and of the Royal College of Surgeons. He has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador for over 15 years. On account of his heroic missionary work, he was made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George, by Edward VII of England...