Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footballer Bob MacLeod and Joe Batchelder will hold down the guard posts for the Indians. They are two boys who combine stout defensive play with good offensive ability. Bob White is the best reserve guard Coach Cowles...
...fresh spring afternoon twelve years ago, a stout, bald American and a compact, bright-eyed young Swiss lingered over lunch in Leipzig's famed Auerbach's Keller. "This is the place," said Dr. William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. pathologists, shifting his big cigar to the other side of his mouth, "where my career started.'' He told how he had met great Dr. John Shaw Billings in Auerbach's Keller half a century before, how he and Billings had worked to establish at Johns Hopkins the first modern medical school...
Amid the chant of excited students, "Our team is red hot," Tom Creamer and Paul Schneider sent the Technology quintet into a nine point lead before the game was ten minutes old. On the defensive, the Tech men threw up a stout man-for-man defense and were able to bottle up the Crimson scoring efforts...
...richly stocked smörgasbord table spread each month by U. S. magazine publishers, the first and daintiest forkfuls of reprint rights generally go to the oldest and richest customer-famed, slightly fabulous Reader's Digest. The stout little Digest totes the biggest plate because it pays the biggest prices, has kept the good will of its hosts by refusing advertising. Sometimes it makes other magazines presents of free, full-length articles which it then digests and "reprints...
...said relations between the two had been "most friendly" (the Digest is believed to have paid Curtis about $20,000 a year), but their contract would definitely not be renewed. Asked for a reason, he replied: "Figure it out for yourself." Best figuring: independent-minded Post Editor Wesley Winans Stout sees no reason for selling ammunition to an important newsstand rival...