Word: stoutly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assigned to the staff of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. He ascended Mt. Erebus and journeyed to the South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal...
...George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...Dunster 23 Asst. Dean Henry Chauncey Gore A25 G. G. Benedict 4G. Gore B12 *W. S. Youngman Jr. 1L. Gore C33 F. B. Lee 2L. Gore D24 E. H. Dewey 4G. Gore E24 Prof. E. P. Kohler 5 Linden St. *James L. Reed 1L. Little Hall 14 R. A. Stout 1L. McKinlock A11 J. McA. Preston 2L. McKinlock B22 *F. A. Pickard 1 G.B. McKinlock C22 *F. McC. Eaton 3L. McKinlock D23 R. F. Doolittle 3L. McKinlock E23 *F. O. Mattiessen Perkins 16 G. K. Zipf '23 Perkins 60 Prof. J. L. Walsh Randolph 4 Fulmer Mood '21 Randolph...
Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...