Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Connoisseurs of philanthropy recalled Mr. Carnegie's often expressed reasons for creating his Hero Fund: "I believe that it take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have...
...challenge is clear. Last week the trumpet of daring was pressed to the lips of heroism and sounded a venture. In an airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhj�lmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...simple! To honor Signor d'Annunzio and to commemorate his heroism at Fiume, the Italian Government has presented him with the battleship Puglia. High and dry upon his lawn, it is ever ready to fire a broadside in honor of Signor d'Annunzio's distinguished guests...
Observers recalled that Germany has no "unknown soldier"; remarked that it is apparently in-tended to raise up the shade of Baron von Richthofen as a titanic figure epitomizing German War-heroism...
...fathered an expedition that has contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped...