Word: steadfastness
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College authorities are only too ready to give the serious scholar time to reason. Dartmouth takes up a plan where by the students who show steadfast purpose and definite promise during their first two years are placed under a system that embodies the leniency of the English tutorial system with none of its restrictions. Harvard has long allowed men on the Dean's List exemption from classes. These are surely definite steps towards the fostering of voluntary thought...
...then the greatest wrestler in the world, faced Stanislaus Zbyszko, 58-year-old Pole, who weighed 50 pounds less (210) and stood not higher than his shoulder. In days that were, Zbyszko himself had been a champion, but those days were past. Philadelphians gathered to the match with the steadfast mien of people attending a wake. They admired Zbyszko's courage* but deplored his bravado...
...ghastly news of the fate of the Tsar and his family convulsed the world with disgust and loathing for the Bolsheviki, she declined to believe that her son and his family were murdered. From that day to this, despite that unfortunate confirmation of the worst, she has remained steadfast in her belief that Tsar Nicholas still lives...
...appeal to the people to support us in our steadfast march?taking each step only after careful examination, making sure of each advance as we go, and using each success as the beginning of further achievements towards a really Socialist Commonwealth...
...There is likewise the morning World (steadfast in the principles of its founder, Joseph Pulitzer) for which the late Frank Cobb created the most notable editorial page in America. He was wholly untrammeled, as is his successor, Walter Lippmann...