Word: ruggedness
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"Religious literature and romance," began President Lowell, "are filled with examples of the choice between good and evil. The young man stands before them and deliberately makes his decision. The good path is represented as hard, encompassed by temptations, requiring purpose and fortitude; but the decision to be made is...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin betook his homespun, sterling self to Manchester, last week, and spoke words of chastening counsel. Addressing a potent luncheon group of Lancashire cotton tycoons he pointedly intimated that the capital structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often...
Bruised and bespattered, two doughty baseball nines pulled themselves together on the sodden paths of a Soldiers Field diamond late yesterday afternoon, exchanged lusty cheers, and dispersed homeward amid the plaudits of the on-looking through. All told it was one of the most rugged battles the Soldiers Field turf...
Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable...
In 1886, when "Uncle Alf" Taylor first stumped from Knoxville to Memphis and back again, campaigning for the Governorship against his Brother Bob, he fiddled in vain for the political support of the gentlemen of Tennessee. Last week, the gentlemen of Tennessee, political and notable, danced attendance on Uncle Alf...