Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...even they had terrific handicaps to overcome, and it required far more stamina and determination for them to reach the goal than the average man or woman possesses. Is it right that these obstacles should be placed in the way of ambitious singers merely because they are Americans? Remember, too, that America is the nation which offers a livelihood to more singers than any other country in the world...
Ames has shown great stamina this fall constantly cutting down his time in the trials. Wason, who placed fourth in the last time trials at Belment, is a very consistent runner...
...editorial column of May 16 the CRIMSON, in a fit of noble fervor exhorting the people to be patriotic and courageous, gives them the haughty warning that, unless they are capable of showing "stamina and bravery" (which the author of the editorial undoubtedly possesses in overflowing exuberance), ten million Americans would be "of not much more value than ten million Chinese. By the stern ethics of nations," he continues, "the weak and the cowardly have no right to endure...
...larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation is unconquerable. What our power in actual fighting ability is rests with the stamina and the bravery of our citizens. If their stamina is small and their bravery lacking, our ten million men will be of not much more value than ten million Chinese. By the stern ethics of nations the weak and the cowardly have no right to endure...
...barely decent. The examining officers know the physical and mental abilities of some hundreds of would-be officers who, keeping a wise weather eye on the draft bill, decided they would rather carry an officer's sabre than a private's rifle, although they had not the physical stamina to carry either on parade, nor the moral stamina to carry either in battle. It is largely such men who are now whimpering that they were not chosen. It need not be said whether their first thought is for their country's strength, or for their own paltry egoism...