Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coaches feel that the training table leads to more team spirit and that the regularity of times for training is of benefit in the training of the team. The football team is about the staunchest supporter of the varsity Club dining halls...
...been on leave from the Law School for three years, is reported to be considering strongly resigning his job as one of the key men of the New Deal to return to his teaching post. Landis has not split with Roosevelt and is known to be one of the staunchest supporters of the present administration, but desires a return to private life...
...East African crisis. In announcing that under no conditions will Britain use military force against Italian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has laid the ghost of a general European conflict and at the same time demonstrated that the cynical attitude long prevalent at Geneva can eventually overcome even the staunchest souls...
...Harvard is looked to as one of the staunchest strongholds of collegiate liberalism. But a university can be no more liberal than its president, so there must be some plot hatching in President Conant's scientific head which will prevent this law from suppressing freedom of speech and criticism among Harvard's illustrious and highly-paid faculty. Things like that happen in poor, benighted state universities, but are impossible in great and tolerant Harvard. The Daily Dartmouth
...even the staunchest opponent of communism would say that John Reed failed to fulfil these simple requirements. Like his classmate. Senator Cutting, whose career was out short a fortnight ago by an airplane accident, Reed died with the ardor of youth still burning in him. To many a contemporary, grown cautious and disillusioned, his memory will recall great days, rich in hope and expectancy. --Boston Herald. Wednesday...