Word: braves
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
Wisely, the test of American Legion membership is honorable service. Few soldiers could choose the service they would perform. Had the choice been theirs, three million more would have found the front lines, and acquitted themselves well. As good and as brave soldiers never left American training camps as fought in France, and I take nothing from the American soldier, the greatest individual of any army...
...When some one is brave enough to found a society for the prevention of going to college, its memberships will be snapped up by schoolmasters who know youth best and who value it most sympathetically...
...chocolate-brown Julian the olive-skinned Emperor's command seemed unreasonable, sinister. How could he stunt successfully a ship he had never flown before? He decided that the lesser risk was to brave imperial wrath, go up for at least one practice flight...
...dear old Rutgers." He was captain of the football team which played Princeton in 1892, the game in which the speech-long attributed to Captain Brett and various other members of the team -originated. Last week the Rutgers Alumni Association announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that his training days were over, reached for a cigaret, told his teammates: "I'd die to win this...