Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grit issues once a week from Williamsport, Pa., where it is published by its founder, a tall, robust, white-crowned German-American named Dietrick Lamade (pronounced Lam'-a-dy). It is a weekly?"America's Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...investigations show that those few Italian girls who have practiced sports on a considerable scale and have married have given birth to the normal number of children, and both these and the mothers are exceptionally robust and healthy. Women shut up in houses and removed from all responsibilities of individual life are not conceivable in our time...
...true enough; that George White has lovelier ladies in his chorus than the Gilbertians, and more effective stage properties, solid pudding arguments not to be denied. But they forget to add, that, whatever the Roman splendors of George White may be, the Savoy Operas have an evasive, indefinable, yet robust charm...
Shall Christian Churches in the missionary field be subsidized by home churches? No, says the Commission, "no church in any land will be robust and virile until it supports itself." Burma leads the Orient, with some 80% of the Baptist churches and 50% of the Methodist on their own feet. In China and Japan, about one-third are selfsupporting; in India even less...
...petty meannesses, his malice toward all of his associates, his claims to ill-treatment at the hands of all his contemporaries, his unctuous self-righteousness, his constant imputation of the worst of motives and conduct, we are moved to something like active dislike of the man. But . . . spotless probity . . . robust Americanism . . . fearless patriotism . . . high statesmanship...