Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assertion that the business collapse was world-wide was derided. Summing up, Nominee Roosevelt declared the Hoover Administration "encouraged speculation and overproduction . . . attempted to minimize the crash . . . forgot reform." Picking phrases out of the Hoover acceptance speech, Governor Roosevelt continued: "Now I believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I believe also in its horse-sense. ... I, too, believe in individualism . . . but I don't believe that in the names of that sacred word a few powerful interests should be permitted to make industrial cannon-fodder of the lives of half the population of the United...
...done with mountains, deserts and bandits for a while. Last obstacle had been the theft by Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations* and a good long rest. But for intrepid Explorer Petropavlosky, Peiping meant a bride. He had met Miss Barbara Rose Schurman while her father, Cornell's Jacob Gould Schurman, was Minister to China, but to marry her he had waited until the completion of the expedition, for which the explorers were preparing for three years...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey (TIME, Oct. 19) intrepid explorer, valiant promoter, is to be applauded for his share in helping deliver the interior of South America into the hands of ''dudes." Ma)' his expensive collection of them see many Jivaros. shoot many monkeys...
Death of a Warrior. It was a last revolution for one old fighter, General Francisco Peraza. Even 1895 was no novelty for intrepid General Peraza, who was then 44 years old. He was a 17-year-old "Colonel" in the first war for independence in 1868. He fought through the Spanish-American War as a General. In 1917 he buckled on his ancient horse pistol and went out as a rebel against President Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because...
Robert Paine Scripps, "for achieving and maintaining an intrepid, public spirited and carefully informed journalism; . . . for seeing and meeting the need today for an aggressive, constructive liberalism to combat in the interests of that great middle stratum of our American people the domestic and international corruption and injustice which challenge the efficacy of the world's great social structure...