Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical build Pablo resembled the small, robust, dark-skinned mother whose name he later took...
Correspondent Cortesi might have expected kinder treatment. His father, Salvatore, robust and retired at 69, is one of Italy's greatest journalists, headed the Associated Press Bureau in Rome for 29 years. His own dispatches to the Times have rarely contained anything that could offend the most ardent Fascist...
...Glenside, Pa., high-school club which encourages boys & girls of different countries to write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen for whom he readily posed. "I am afraid that, if I told you my family name, harm might come to my mother...
Year and a half ago tall, robust Edwin Augustus Lee conceived a stunt to dramatize these facts. Dr. Lee, a former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments...
When her subject is right, as it was in Time Out of Mind and Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field can do it up brown. Her robust whimsicality, freshness and charm rank her, without disparagement, as the Louisa May Alcott of contemporary writers. All this, and Heaven too, the "true" story of her great-aunt, Henriette Desportes Field, is a Rachel Field natural...