Word: ruggedness
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Little but sturdy is the village of Metlakatla, on rugged Annette Island in Alaska's Panhandle, 650 miles north of Seattle. Religion started Metlakatla, and religion has kept it going. In 1887 a Church of England missionary named William Duncan and a band of Tsimshian Indians, harried by differences...
The first surprise was sprung by Alfredo Navarrete, general counsel of the Mexican Mine Workers Syndicate. Rugged, husky-voiced, audacious and experienced, Alfredo Navarrete is a conservative who is against political control of labor unions. He announced that his Syndicate, which claims 125,000 members, would break away from CTM...
The mesomorphic component involves squareness and hardness of body, rugged, conspicuous muscles, large, prominent bones, heavy chest, wrists and hands, broad shoulders, broad hips, powerful pelvis.
. . . Whether Henry Ford actually said he could produce a thousand planes a day or not, no one can doubt his ability to do so and no one can doubt that he will produce that many or more when he is called upon. I think he typifies the rugged individualists who...
Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their...