Word: stoutly
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...thwart, he had swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...
...dividends has set in. U. S. Rubber has valiantly paid on its 8% preferred issue, but evidently with much effort. Now Kelly-Springfield has passed to 1½% quarterly installment on its 6% preferred stock, and the stock-holders must in viewing the company's immediate future be stout optimists to obey the classic injunction to "Keep Smiling with Kellys...
...sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars. I used to dread that fourth act like a trip to the dentist." There was also Leo Slezak, who "is very stout; 'I always like to work with you,' he often told me, 'because you are so thin I can actually embrace you on the stage when an embrace is in order. I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!' " Elsewhere there...
According to investigations made by the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a man in a state of rest and in still air cannot endure indefinitely a temperature higher than 90° F. with 100% relative humidity. Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures lose more weight than thin men, but, as a rule, can stand high temperatures longer and complain less of exhaustion...
...Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures...