Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth million square miles, the icecap of the world. (See AERONAUTICS.) At the stern of the Norge flies a silk Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen Maud (TIME, April 12, SCIENCE). Within the Norge's gondola are other Norwegian flags of stiffest canvas, securely sewed to stout weighted spikes. According to international convention all that is necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region is for the Norge to fly over it, dropping a sufficient number of flags. Already King Haakon's realm embraces the south polar cap, discovered and claimed for Norway...
...Stout Chairman of the Committee has announced the members as follows...
...competition for the position of Class Poet on the Freshman Red Book board will begin this evening at 7 o'clock with a meeting in Stout's room in Gore Hall. Candidates who have already been competing are wanted again and as many others as possible. Each candidate will submit poems for the prologue and epilogues and the author of the best piece of work will be taken on to the board...
...pass man and an honors man. Each presumably is receiving the academic training best suited to his character, personality, and inclinations. There is a difference of opinion among the Oxford and Cambridge teachers in regard to the two educational schemes; some, like the late Master of Balliol, holding a stout brief for the "honors" system exclusively, others, like Sir Joseph J. Thompson, Master of Trinity, Cambridge, believing a mixture of the two classes of undergraduates to be more wholesome for all concerned...
...Stout blows were struck last week on all sides of the one issue which generates passion of every sort-personal, economic, religious, political, sociological. Up in Michigan, the 21 young spinsters of Kappa Kappa Gamma of Adrian College reported to the Dean that ten of their men friends had done a little drinking at their sorority dance. Proclaimed the spinsters: "We, the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were...