Word: valor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned how to do it partly on the gridiron. What Princeton needs is not more clergymen among her alumni, but more mighty men of valor on her football team...
...valor surged, however, in the breast of the Dictator's trim aide-de-camp, Victor Larenas. Careless of spoiling his gaudy green uniform, he rushed up to amateur assassin Olachea, grasped him by the neck, flung him to the ground...
...said President Hoover, "gave my views [at the opening of the current special session of congress]. . . . I then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties...
...Marblehead, Mass, a cynosure was the 31-ft. Bat with the Charles Francis Adamses, father and son, aboard. Famed for flying starts and damn-your-eyes valor when it blows, the Secretary of the Navy had a bad week of it. The wind was so light and fluky that the races developed into drifting, breeze-hunting contests between the 285 yards of 33 classes assembled for the Corinthian Yacht Club's regatta. Time and again the Bat led at the start, lagged at the finish. Before the week was out, Sailor Adams Jr. left to join Gerald B. Lambert...
...observed exception. General Dawes . . . maintained intact his trousers. No doubt this addiction to trousers is a personal foible. Shall any then blame General Dawes? . . Of course not. . . . Let us more properly pay a tribute to the personal courage which consorts so well with his military rank, for it needs valor to become voluntarily the target of every glance...