Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
Last year the Class of 1935 held the first smoker to be given in the Union, under the direction of R. A. Stout '29, and a committee from the Class...
...There is a common European wild rose called the dog rose (Rosa canina). It has stout, hooked thorns...
...coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks had become unwieldy. An abortive effort was made last October to boost the price of crude, but two Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels. Though such stout proration-ists as President Charles Bismark Ames of American Petroleum Institute insisted that the Supreme Court decision does not impair the power of states to regulate production, most of the industry saw evil days ahead. Governor Sterling reluctantly demobilized his little army, declaring: "Serious trouble is threatened in many quarters...
...West Point cadets who have played three years of varsity football elsewhere are still eligible for the team. This gives West Point an obvious advantage in Army-Navy games. Navy has not won since 1921. In last week's game, closing the football season for the East, stout-hearted Navy tried hard, but anyone could see that Army had more power, more experience. Its team was precisely as much better than Navy's as the score, 20-to-0, showed...