Word: intrepidly
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...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies...
...another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with him, so a sailor was sent back in a small boat and he took the dead bird from the water and on its tiny body was found the only word ever received from the intrepid explorer and his brave companions. For over 30 years that article of mine remained unnoticed in an old scrap book but at the August meeting of our local society for the prevention of cruelty, I read the article aloud to the members. Next day word came of the discovery of the remains of Andree...
...this point some intrepid mockers rose in the hall, noisily stamped towards exits. The great organ of the hall pealed, drowned out the disturbance...
...gray dawn of Thursday April 10, three intrepid Harvard cyclers A. T. Gray '30, J. S. Ames '32, and K. G. Pender '30, mounted bicycles in front of the Mt. Aubura Street dormitories, faced a battery of press cameras, and whirled off bound for New York. On Friday, after an actual riding time of something more than 24 hours, the three riders pedalled into New York, winning, money for their backers in Cambridge, and giving evidence that they at least had not utterly resigned themselves to the gasoline age. A fourth rider at the start, mounted on a tandem bicycle...
...first week one stands an even chance of getting to the bottom without amusing the smokers lounging about the pillars by an elaborate balancing act in attempting to maintain his equilibrium. At the end of this period, the going becomes increasingly difficult, so much so that only the most intrepid can traverse the smoothly beveled ice. Finally the thaw comes; the uninitiated again splash joyously over their acoustomed route, hoping that before their Harvard days are over they shall have mastered the art of climbing "on the diagonal...