Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither is the U. S. Navy the heroic myth of the days of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, of Farragut in Mobile...
...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...
...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
...Heroic Epic", Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German...
Princeton, with a dozen lettermen back for practice, and a backfield of virtuosos, played a sloppy game against Amherst. Only heroic efforts by Prendergast and an 80-yard run by Parker made possible a 14 to 7 victory. The Amherst team went home to attend the funeral of Alfred Pimm, 1928, halfback who died of spinal injuries received in a practice game last week...