Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long supremacy of Harvard hockey teams was seriously challenged last year--and finally vindicated only by heroic efforts. If anyone threatens this year, it is Yale. Unbeaten so far by any college sextet, reinforced by several undoubted stars, and victorious over McGill--to whom the University lost in an early season game,--Yale has much confidence in her ability to play Captain Crosby's men to a standstill. Harvard men, nevertheless, think otherwise...
...misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of war, the first light it saw was very dark indeed, and the principle acts, or inactions, committed in its name have damned it eternally for the many heroes and heroines who have sustained through war the bitter loss of their more heroic...
Manuel's blood and Jurgen's ran in the veins of Florian de Puysange?a heroic but discomfortable inheritance. It did not help him to live easily in this world...
When a concerto heard at the hands of a pianist of the skill and artistry of Harold Bauer, still remains unconvincing, uninteresting, and long-winded, there is something the matter. Eloquence on Mr. Bauer's part, heroic effort by Mr. Monteux, nothing could redeem this very dry concerto except a very few passages in the less uninteresting last movement. If there is any meaning to this work, as there may be, since an artist of Mr. Bauer' rank sees fit to play it, we are unable to discover...
...fore against tremendous odds. With a complete spy system among New York publishers, an underground railway of insidious rumors at the college, and a stiff resistance among the college papers, Yale managed to keep his great book, "The New Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired effect for by showing Yale that its Bowl was a place where "mothers and fathers, sisters, classmates, alumni will cheer and shout and scream to drown the misery of their aching, mangled, bleeding sons...