Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...third time and the hit and run game was tried without success, as Hicks failed to hit the ball and Brown was out on the catcher's throw to second base. Hick's subsequent hit went for naught as Lanigan flied out to right field. Williams made a valiant attempt to win the game in the ninth inning, but the fielding of the University team pulled Hicks out of a bad hole. Two hits and a base on balls filled the bases with only one out. Templeton then sent a liner to Aronson and a run was prevented...
...Reader-"The Reproof Valiant," by G. Hibbard...
...suffering and difficulties, through which French society is passing, will not be without their good results, for he believes that this society, which has done so much for civilization, art and science, but which comfort has now made torpid, will be awakened by necessity to a more vigorous and valiant struggle for existence...
...Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
Here deeper thoughts will sometimes flow, And Harvard's Past set hearts aglow With zest to add to the valiant row Of her royal fellowship...