Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week, the alumni association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons assembled to honor a stalwart member. He was 75-year-old Dr. William Henry Welch, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University since 1916. He also has been President of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research since 1901; trustee of the Carnegie Institution since 1906; a Brigadier General in the Officers Reserve Corps (he served in the Army during the War) ; holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and many another; recipient of a string of honorary...
...present, the second Mrs. Akeley, was Miss Mary Lee Jobe, stalwart mountain climber (for whom was named Jobe Mountain in the Canadian Rockies). She married Explorer Akeley in October, 1924, he being 60, she 38 (TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, MILESTONES). This will be her first trip to Africa; she will shoot only with a camera...
...Whether it be Cabinet officers, a United States Senator, a Methodist Bishop, a Baptist evangelist, a Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Pope of Rome, I do not propose to allow any man to declare, without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition on their knees as well as at the ballot box are given to the habitual practice of misrepresentation...
...stick work was a great factor in last year's Yale victories, will face the University sextet tonight for the first time this season. The Eli center is fully recovered from his early season injury and is expected to make trouble for the invading defense men. Captain Potts, the stalwart Blue leader, was the outstanding player in the first University win and will be ably supported by Cole and Noble, tonight, both of whom are fast and rugged...
...times have changed. So also has the name of the historic square before the Reichstag building. Yesterday it was Konigplatz. Konigplatz was military Germany incarnate. There rightly stood the stalwart statues of von Moltke and that mighty Empire Builder, Prinz Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen...