Word: heroical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take...
...TIME not forget Generals John J. Pershing, J. E. B. Stuart, and Philip Sheridan, as well as the heroic defender of Atlanta, General John Bell Hood...
They met in realization of a heroic vision a shag-haired 19th-Century revolutionary named Simon Bolivar lived for-the cooperation of the American countries as equal and sovereign states forever at peace. And from seat No. 19, where sat Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, came a proposal that the Americas guard their seas from...
...Gulf of Lepanto the 300 Christian ships commanded by Don John of Austria struck the Turkish fleet in 1571, enfolded it and then pierced it, destroyed it except for 40 vessels that made a desperate heroic escape...
Pause. Breathless before a bigger, more heroic drama than Hitler's bombshell had been, correspondents saw something new in history develop as the week closed. As Edouard Daladier, without giving way, eloquently appealed to Adolf Hitler to remember the dead of the World War, there was a long debate over the barricades-in frightful tension, sleepless preparation, with frontiers closed and armies mobilized, the Pause of Guilt began. Over the darkened cities that had become haunted and despairing islands of last nights together, of work never to be done, of books unwritten, of children unseen, of dreams unfulfilled, over...