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...discrediting" propaganda was John Valentine Dittemore, onetime member of the directing board which answered him last week, staunch believer in medicine and surgery...
...Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to stay in the sky until men or engines succumbed. Experts had allowed their three Wright Whirlwind motors 400 flying hours before bearings splintered and cracked, poppet valves ceased to pop. The wind-bronzed flyers seemed staunch, infallible...
John Wesley, staunch Tory supporter of Church and King, had not intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
...delicate matter. Of course, so illustrious a pet would be welcomed and appreciated by anyone with any feeling at all for dogs. But the Hoovers had a dog already, a shaggy, grim-grinning German police dog, perfectly respectable as to breeding though no multiple champion. To predict that this staunch friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture. The odds seemed the other way, that this dog would be First Dog, just as surely as faithful Secretary's Secretary George Akerson...
...Albany has managed to furnish at least one and sometimes two newspapers which could nestle securely against Dutch welcome mats. Such a newspaper was the Argus, which traced its beginnings back to 1813. Such a newspaper, in the evening field, was Thurlow Weed's famed Albany Evening Journal, staunch bulwark of Republicanism...