Word: daunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rain kept the ball teams inactive yesterday, but it didn't daunt the Glee Club, who warbled through their program on schedule at 7 o'clock last night in the shelter of the Widener roof, while most of the audience shivered and dripped in a driving rain...
Harvard speakers were Phil C. Neal '40, who took the place of Thomas V. Healey '38, originally scheduled to speak, and Robert W. Bean '39. The affirmative debaters were Arthur Collins and John J. Daunt...
...which the article is written, but I do think you might take the trouble to see that the photographs you publish are correct ones. Lady Emily Hart Dyke was very beloved in many parts of this country, and to see her photograph printed with the words "Mismating did not daunt her," and my own name underneath it, will give pain to many people...
James Michael Curley also wanted to be Governor of Massachusetts. A charter member of the State's For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago Club, that jolly, apple-cheeked Irishman was routed at the Democratic convention which selected General Cole last June. That reverse did not daunt Boston's three-time Mayor, a veteran of more than 20 years in the city's political Wild West Show. All things to all men, Jim Curley took the stump, talked tough to tough audiences, talked polite to polite conservatives. Above all, he talked New Deal, of which he proclaimed himself the uncompromising...
These inauspicious accidents did not daunt the 200 officers and 324 enlisted men who had been sworn in on their tarmacs for duty with the Post Office Department. The mail did go through, in 148 ships whose machine guns and bomb-racks had been yanked out so they could carry letter sacks in their bellies. To begin with, the Army dropped 16,000 of the 27,000 route miles previously privately flown. Some feeder services were abandoned: Twin Cities-Chicago, Los Angeles-Portland, New Orleans-Chicago, Buffalo-New York. On the New York-San Francisco run, the Army maintained...