Word: stalwart
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...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...
...admirer of the TIME I like to remind you of a trifle mistake which you made on p. 16 in the Jan. 4 issue of your magazine (Vol. VII, No. 1). The slim figure in the picture printed on that page, entitled "Feng adroit," does not represent the stalwart person of the so-called Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang. In fact, it is the picture of the late General Feng Kou-Chang, once the Vice President of the Republic of China. Perhaps it will not be far amiss for me to add here that, although bearing the same name...
...tried to push into the line, were restrained; all went home; the sampietrini, Vatican workmen, rubbed their palms, went home too. A year before Pius XI had opened the Holy Year by hitting the Holy Door with a gold hammer (TIME, Jan. 5). Although strong enough to give a stalwart blow (until immured in the Vatican by papal policy since his election in 1922, he led an active, energetic life; was even a famed mountain climber), he contented himself then with only cracking symbolically a piece of slate in the Door. Sampietrini finished the work of removal...
...Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff...