Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds...
Peru's Circumnavigators. Intrepid Peruvians, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos and Carlos Zegarra, bought a Bellanca plane in New York and last week started to fly from Lima, Peru, back to Manhattan. But not by the shortest way. They are first circumnavigating the western, southern, and eastern edges of South America, stopping at the capitals of the various countries. Santiago, Chile, was their first visiting place...
BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their way into the group subtle, inference and thinly yelled insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew of the Texas were fed in the manner of swine in comparison with the luxurious fare meted out aboard the Arkansas. This was too much. With righteous indignation the worthy Texans plunged into battle royal in resentment of such scandalous libel...
...intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...