Word: valor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laying aside your arms now is an act of patriotism as exalted and pure as your valor in taking them...
This, the speaker said, was the spirit brought out on Memorial Day. "Causes live though generations die, for a country does not forget the valor and sacrifice of youth... On Memorial Day we bury petty things. Big things seem bigger and the small things smaller...
Captain Charles Nungesser, famous French ace, fourteen times decorated for valor, is engaged to Miss Consuelo Hatmaker, of No. 270 Park Avenue, Manhattan...
...keeps in touch with human nature through sacraments and music, it works, as far as the common people are concerned. Dean Inge points out that whereas the genius of the Roman race is primarily for government and power, the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race is primarily for valor, honor and truthfulness. He contrasts Kingsley's blundering directness in 1845 with Newman's "loss of power to distinguish fact from fiction." The three results of this Anglo-Saxon Protestantism are: a reversion to an earlier Christianity than the Catholic, an inspiration of moral and political reform...
...objected seriously to running more than a lap apiece; the scribes who had been training conscientiously for two months in anticipation of this classic event maintained that each man should run at least two laps and preferably three; the literary men, believing that discretion was the better part of valor, wisely refrained from expressing an opinion. As a compromise, Coach Bingham, decided that the distance should be a lap and a half...