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Word: valiants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that he has rendered a valiant service to the community. If the reason for his dismissal was his frank discussion and presentation of public issues, we deplore this kind of censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fired for Valor | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Married. Natalie Wood (real name: Natasha Gurdin). 19 pert, petite cineminx (Kings Go Forth) known as "the teen-ager"; and brown-haired Cinemale (the "bobby-soxer's delight") Robert (Prince Valiant) Wagner, 27; in Scottsdale, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Satellites," is to wipe away the distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment. "One of our greatest dangers lies in an anti-intellectualism fostered by school authorities who should be among its most valiant opponents. One expression of it is the pious cliche, 'We teach boys and girls, not subjects.' The superintendent of schools in a large city puts this into practice by assigning his teachers to subjects they have never studied, because, he says, he wants his teachers to be 'child-centered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change the Thinking | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Debate Council was the recipient also of a booby prize, donated by the Dartmouth Forensic Union, in the form of a small model of a drum. On it was inscribed: "Presented in memory of those valiant (sic) men who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the Harvard bass drum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Achieve Landslide Win In Intercollegiate Meet at Brown | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools and Scandals | 10/9/1957 | See Source »

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