Word: stoutly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broad, long runways (ranging from 3,600 to 6,000 ft.), North Beach has one feature the Civil Aeronautics Authority's safety board may not like-a blind landing runway separated by only 200 feet from the flanking water of Flushing Bay. Last week even Newark's stout advocates feared that C. A. A. might approve North Beach and old Newark Airport might become a ghostly memento in the marshy Jersey meadows...
When Ed Collins came out of church his two pals were waiting for him. They took him to a lumber yard, made him steal two stout boards. Then they drove him to the edge of town, to a lonely spot near the County Hospital...
...MANY COOKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Smooth concoction of crime and cooking in which Nero Wolfe, assisted by faithful, wisecracking Archie Goodwin, solves the murder of one of the world's 15 best chefs...
...their preoccupation with strictly professional problems, the delegates paused this year for the first time to salute a colleague for high general medical achievement. To Surgeon Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways...
...order to tip the scales at the required 136 Ib. (welterweight minimum) for last week's fight, Armstrong, whose normal weight is 130, quaffed a mixture of ale and stout, wolfed a big breakfast before weighing in. When the fight was postponed from its original date because of rain, he was not required to scale 136 again...