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...hard, thankless job. . . . There are some who will count me just another 'out' in the game; others will say 'she made a sacrifice hit.' ... As President Roosevelt said: 'Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords...
...Aeronautics waited for public comment. Last week it announced honestly: "So far nothing has materialized except a notable expression of sympathy from a large share of the daily press, and a few of the usual large gestures from those who profess to believe that the present hodgepodge is the noblest possibility of our great democracy...
Papa's decision was that she must return home. Accordingly Miss Universe left the U. S. at once, going home by way of Cuba. Hearst-thinker Arthur Brisbane commented, of course, on the contest. The traditional Brisbanality at such a juncture would have been to the effect that the noblest thing Miss Universe could now do would be to go home and marry some good man and be a good wife and exercise woman's richest function, Motherhood. Instead, Mr. Brisbane Brisbantered...
When Byrd returned to Little America, his base, he was meditative. Finally he said: "I have named this land after the best sport and noblest person I know, one who has borne the brunt of all my adventures and to whom the credit belongs for anything I may have accomplished. This new land will be Marie Byrd Land...
...ground for hoping, to the malignants of the Charles.... Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit of uplift. In the language of its own discipline, it deserves a "public admonition." Answering of questionnaires should be made compulsory, at least to college professors, perhaps the largest producers. --New York Times...