Word: ruggedness
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Maybe someone should tell him that in America most of us like our men rugged.
Sporting a brighter shade of Red than the Crimson could offer, a tall, rugged, fast-breaking Cornell team that finally seems to have hit its stride outclassed the Varsity basketball team Saturday night in the Indoor Athletic Building with Harvard bowing 49-34 in their first League start of the...
The Washington priest pondered the shape of the world to come. On one matter he was convinced. "The millions of returning soldiers and sailors will not be satisfied or fooled by the old claptrap concerning 'rugged individualism,' 'American opportunity' or 'American equality.' . . . They will...
The mystery of the starfish is how he can be such a successful foe of clams and oysters. He attaches his sucking "tube-feet" to a bivalve, opens it, inserts his mobile stomach, eats and digests his victim. But apparently the starfish lacks the strength to open an oyster. In...
Late Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual...