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Word: heroically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy, but his efforts have been isolated, heroic, ineffectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...less than three terrible minutes the upheavals had ended. But weakened structures continued to collapse and fires broke out. One heroic youngster, a night watchman at the main power plant, realizing that fallen live wires would electrocute many, rushed into the tottering building, jerked off the switch just as the roof smashed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...some of the world already knows too well, the symbol of New York City's forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: $1,000 Poem | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...MUSIC : HEROIC AND MAJESTIC . . . SUCH AS CODA OR FINALE OF BEETHOVEN'S EROICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Men | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock conducted Debussy's Berceuse héroique, Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life, Beethoven's heroic Fifth Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two-man Orchestra | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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