Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt Term III Administration was William Orville Douglas, for the last 19 months a Supreme Court Justice, but still eager for more active duty. Some Janizaries predicted that Justice Douglas would eventually be either Secretary of State or Chairman of the Defense Commission. He had given the President valiant aid in the campaign, in ideas and memoranda for the six speeches, and was still a chief figure in the palace politics of the inner circle. All agreed that he would not remain for life on the Court...
Jack Penson, the Crimson goalie, did a valiant job at the nets. He spent his busiest afternoon of the season and in spite of the fact that he was seriously shaken up, his miraculous saves did much to keep the Tiger score down. Also Prenny Willetts played an outstanding game at the right outside position...
Beaters for a Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, stationed in Newark, flushed one witness after another to tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush. The Committee's valiant Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey watched and listened, with blunderbuss at the ready. Beside him sat his colleague, Senator Alva Adams, little, solid and Democratic, who would rather be off hunting in Republican-controlled South Jersey counties...
...Cincinnsti 13-0 Could be upet here Army Williams 20-0 On brave old Army Team Northwestern Syracuse 13-0 Go you Northwestern Bowdoin Wesleyan 13-7 Will win this one St. Mary's California 14-7 Bears still groggy Michigan Michigan State 20-7 Hail to the victors valiant Ohio State Purdue 26-13 A track meet Cornell Colgate 13-0 Ithacans too smooth U. C. L. A. Santa Clara 10-7 Bronco busters
...statements of their agreement, to meet again in the fall of 1941 and 1942 to work on their great project: an inclusive system of thought for civilized man. Said the conference: "The departmentalization of human knowledge has been proceeding for more than a century; its integration, with the most valiant efforts, will take more than a meeting of three days...