Word: stalwart
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...Harvard system of education has long been admitted both by those members of the faculty whose interest is the training and cultural development of the undergraduate mind and by those members of the student body whose prime interest is that training and development. However, there has grown with the stalwart persistence of a ripening truth a definite belief that these examinations are crowding and confusing the life of the senior candidate for distinction. This has, for the most part, been the result of the close time contact of the distinction thesis required by most departments, with these examinations...
...light blue of Cambridge, and that they had more hyphens and initials among them than ordinary folk. There was P. W. Murray-Threipland, for instance, an old Etonian in the bow of the Oxford shell, and M. F. A. Kean, an old Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years...
...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...