Word: intrepidly
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When the opera began we were too far backstage to hear well, and we got more and more curious. Led by the intrepid Harry Newman we tip-toed back to the wings of the stage to watch and listen. We needn't have tip-toed. No one bothered about us. Stagehands and stars were scattered through the wings in profusion, and they didn't even notice us. We all crowded in and had a fair view of the proceedings. Until I stopped the show, Or almost...
President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
Roller bearings, said Timken's intrepid ad, would permit "one-speed" railroading (identical speeds for freight and passenger trains), would accelerate the whole defense program, save building many new cars. Other roller-bearing claims: 1) starting resistance reduced by 88%; 2) elimination of hotbox delay; 3) reduced maintenance costs...
...scholars, many of them now little known. Of the next 50 years, he said: "Our people should be able to look to the universities for the moral courage, the intellectual clarity and the spiritual elevation needed to guide them and uphold them in this critical hour. . . . Candid and intrepid thinking about fundamental issues-in the crisis of our time this is the central obligation of the universities...
...Alfred went to India. In Benares he met an eminent yogi, Chakananda Swami, who was then 147 and who taught Alfred the hoary Hatha-Yoga secrets of vitality. These stimulated Alfred to an even more intrepid period of reporting. During World War I, a ripened newsman of 86, he entered Germany on a forged neutral passport, was arrested at Frankfort on the Main, was saved by the sportsmanship of the consul of the country from which Alfred supposedly came. In 1926 the mature reporter of 98 was arrested in Portugal, condemned to death, thrown into a dungeon. He escaped with...