Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism got a look at a new stylebook that attempted to standardize U.S. newspaper usage. A valiant effort to combine common usage with common sense, it would soon be required reading in many a newsroom, as well as in classrooms...
Entomologist James Augustus Hyslop was once, and for many years, a valiant insect fighter. Back in 1908, Hyslop en listed in the bug-fighting army of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He poisoned grasshoppers, battled boll weevils, spied out numberless insects with a view to their undoing. Finally, as boss of the Insect Pest Survey and Information, he and his minions slew bugs by the billions. But as he got to know the enemy, a change came over Hyslop : he began to see things from the insect's point of view...
Symbol of a City. Some impenitent Germans were cockily confident that their anti-Russian hatred was the only certificate they needed to be acclaimed as valiant brothers in the Western fraternity. Rage at this fact misses the truth that in Berlin today tens of thousands of other Germans are risking their lives to defy Communist tyranny. Tens of thousands, within sight of Red Army tanks, are fighting Communism openly and well. They know that if the Communists ever control all Berlin, they will be done for. They fear war, like all reasonable men; they would be the first to feel...
...Harold (Prince Valiant) Foster has stuck by the older and less fashionable tradition of N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. The bloody adventures of his Arthurian prince are crammed with careful details, less dramatic than Caniff's, but also richer...
...valiant fight, Mindszenty lost on the school issue last week. The Hungarian Parliament declared the parochial schools nationalized. Catholics could not alter the official decree, but they had ways of retorting. Across the land, at the cardinal's order, church bells tolled a 15-minute requiem. In Budapest (before the police broke up their demonstration) women shouted: "Wait till September-our children will be taught at home...