Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a year ago spoke lanky, bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, vice president of Stout Metal Airplane Co., designer and builder of Ford tri-motors (TIME, May 26). Airmen knew that Designer...
...books (Drift and Mastery, The Political Scene, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, Men of Destiny, American Inquisitors, A Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public...
...Slack's Westinghouse task was to make more permeable windows. A film of glass would serve, were it stout enough to withstand the suction of the Lenard vacuum tubes. Dr. Slack rounds the end of his vacuum tube until it resembles the butt of a test tube. Then he blows the glass to gossamer thinness. A last step is to exhaust the tube. This creates a knob at the tube's end, a knob so frail that when shattered its glassy film floats in air. so stout that it is as strong as steel. Result is that a pressure...
...biography "Stout Cortez" Henry Morton Robinson has produced an uncritical, unscholarly book which, however, should not lose interest and fascination on that account among popular readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well...
...Lowell is deep in many things. He is enthusiastically deep in campanology (bell lore). He finds few books more fascinating than De Tintinnabulis by 16th Century Bell-Master Hieronymus Magius. All last week Dr. Lowell's stout old heart was palpitant with the excitement of getting those Russian bells hung just right. There was trouble...