Word: spunk
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...maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality...
...does now wish in any way to disturb her, or attempt to displace her. On the contrary our attitude is friendly, and we sincerely wish the Advocate success in the straight and narrow path which she has had, the courage to choose. Its editors have shown spunk and sand by sticking to her well known and traditional standards of high literary merit...
...circulating a petition to the President, asking him to use his influence in favor of national prohibition during the war. Graduate students who have not already signed this resolution may do so at Phillips Brooks House at any time before 5 o'clock Thursday evening. Someone ought to have spunk enough to start a similar petition among the undergraduates. The President is waiting for the development of public opinion. Let every man do his part in its mobilization. EDWIN C. KEMBLE...