Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open to suggestion on policy. The last play Too Much Johnson was a valiant effort to gather a lowbrow audience after the two highbrow plays failed financially...
...believe that the preservation of England should be a primary aim of the United States. The nation that is putting up so valiant a fight against the forces of aggression is, if only incidentally, serving as a bulwark of the unprepared western hemisphere against the common enemy. It is with a purely selfish aim in mind that this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love...
...about war with the Axis as to prevent us from asking ourselves whether we shall serve suffering humanity better everywhere by going into this war or by staying out. . . . I hold that the United States can better serve suffering humanity by staying out." Massrs. Conant and Hutchins are equally valiant guards of the best in American universities, but as a formulator of national policy Dr. Hutchins shows the greater wisdom...
...seems that hard work does not always go unrewarded, for after years of valiant effort, David W. Bailey, the University's energetic publications agent, and Harvard's staunchest alphabet supporter, has at last realized his cherished ambition, and has alphabetized the catalogue...
...possible, perhaps fearing a death-rattle torpedo attack and perhaps also to prevent being identified. Scarcely one man was not hit, but their heavy sea gear stopped most of the splinters. Darkness probably saved them. Presently the raider turned off, began vainly hunting other victims with angry starshells. The valiant Jervis Bay had held him up for better than an hour...