Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials for the Freshman interdormitory boxing tournament, held yesterday afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium, resulted in a victory for L. Coolidge of Standish over H. S. Mills, also of Standish, in the 160 pound class. Coolidge was the aggressor throughout the bout, and displayed excellent ring generalship...
When he entered the ring Farmer Lodge, 231 pounds, weighed 13 pounds more than Firpo. For four rounds he was the aggressor...
...curiously (and unfortunately for his spiritual health), the Fundamentalist is the first to rush into argument. He is the aggressor because he feels, with considerable justification, that the Modernist should get out of the old church; but he can only be ousted by being haled before an ecclesiastical court...
...Congress not only first declared war, but actually did so five days after the objectionable. British "Orders in Council" had been revoked, though at the time ignorant of that fact. The Civil War is out of the picture; but the United States itself was the aggressor in the Mexican and Spanish Wars. Even the World War was begun by us under circumstances which not a few European nations were willing to accept rather than themselves fight, and it certainly cannot be used as a case for the necessity of defensive preparation. There was of course provocation of more or less...
...somewhat forgotten, is still a terrible fact. When I last saw the devastated area I was astonished at the amount of reconstruction already completed, but there still remains great areas in ruins. As it is, France has done seven times as much work in the reconstruction as Germany, the aggressor. France has been obliged to borrow enormous sums of money to carry on this work and at the same time pay pensions to the wounded soldiers and their families. To pay the interest and principal on these debts a huge burden of taxation has been placed upon the French taxpayers...