Word: heroisms
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...three Army flyers who risked their lives pulling two injured companions from a wrecked and burning army plane, the President presented Cheney Air Heroism medals and awards of $200 apiece; to two marine corps colonels the President presented Congressional Medals of Honor for having led their companies into heavy gunfire to win an engagement in the Philippine insurrection. 33 years...
...from Thee cometh all our benefits. O spread the mantle of happiness and good health upon all hearthstones. Almighty God, let these days be a prelude of the triumph that is to come. Merciful Father, come with us, and marvels shall come to our Nation reborn. Let self-sacrifice, heroism, and idealism make their irresistible appeal to our Republic until all citizens shall realize their brotherhood in one common Father. . . . O righteous God, frown upon all Mammon worship and hasten the time when the world over shall become just and generous, and by Thy touch man everywhere shall receive...
Starting with the days of John Smith and the later date of 1620 when into Virginia were brought those famous ninety maids who were to make the plantation "grow in generations and not to be pieced out without", the tale of heroism, progress and emancipation of womanhood is one which cannot fail to interest even the most ardent anti-suffragist...
...wire entanglements. The bomb exploded with a loud detonation, smashing the three heroes and the barbed wire to pieces. These heroes died a desperate death, opening a way for the infantrymen to make a dash, which eventually resulted in the occupation of the enemy's camp. Their heroism makes even demons...
...make a living out of heroism become cynical. Graft-ridden China was too tempting for Hero Hall. Soon Chinese officials sued him in San Francisco for $100,000 they claimed they had given him to buy airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed...