Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promising sophomore due, Henry K. Fitts '36 and Bernard F. Merriam, II, '36, is pushing Howard S. Bowen '35 to the limit for the position of first diver, Merriam won the Yale meet last year and seems like the most promising candidate for the dive. A list of stalwart free-stylers, including Edward P. Parker '34, Sherwood, Wightman and Wyman are expected to deliver in the relay, an event in which Harvard has always been strong
...intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore in stalwart Henry Morgenthau Jr. as Undersecretary of the Treasury, swore in Dr. William Irving Myers to succeed Mr. Morgenthau as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration...
...gone. To fill their places Casey has Burton and those coming up from the Freshman eleven. Even the brilliant Jayvee tackles, who looked good enough for the Varsity, Knowles and Barrows, will go in June. The two first-string guards, Gundlach and Schumann will be back but the stalwart reserves who played at least half of the Yale game, Healey and Crane, will be lost to the squad...
...companion show, "Footlight Parade" furnishes in the way of female bodies, what the opener does its best to provide in the way of stalwart males and it needs must be said that it succeeds in this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance...
...fine weather. By the time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...