Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lists further against the Lampoon would simply tend to place both sides on a similar footing. to place both sides on a similar footing. The "Hydrostatic paradox of controversy" expounded by Oliver Wendell Holmes seems peculiarly applicable to the present controversy. If you had a sent tube one arm of which was the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way--and the looks know...
...strong-arm squad of Boston's best brand-new policeman arrived two hours before the game to subdue the eager mob that threatened (according to the advance press notices) to tear down the Pavilion. After being thoroughly searched, both of the spectators that had come to see the great tussle were allowed to enter and claim their seats under a heavy and constant guard...