Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement houses and the Emergency Relief Administration. Government students will peer behind the scenes at Washington; marine biologists will peer through glass-bottomed boats off Bermuda. While music students make a round of concerts, art students will browse through galleries or attach themselves as apprentices to artists. A few intrepid girls will tend spindles in hosiery mills. At the end of February they will all be back on their Vermont campus at the foot of Mount Anthony to tell their instructors what they learned...
Though the Duchess rarely goes out in the evening, her alibis are not so good as they might be. A policeman, perspiring with embarrassment, is about to take her into custody when her intrepid kinsman, a V. C., risks a fate worse than death to prove her innocence. Author Arlen eventually saves his heroine's reputation, without materially damaging...
...released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what is it?' through his whiskers...
...Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never one to become needlessly excited, Frenchmen knew that...
...TIME must dignify Mark Edward Ridge as "intrepid," dignify his story by two columns of copy, let it at least spare Science, and list such items under Miscellany. I will bet a TIME subscription for Mark Edward Ridge on Hank Schafer (TIME, March 19, p. 66) to complete successfully and without injury "black-browed young daredevil" Ridge's bungled show...