Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazilian Government stated that victory was in sight: that a great battle was raging in which the defeat of the rebels was momentarily expected; that the rebel cause was doomed; that strong reinforcements had been sent to the Sao Paulo front and a decisive engagement planned; that the great assault was certain to crush the rebels; that the attack was about to begin...
...still screamingly pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels...
...mile run, Harvard will take another first place with Tibbetts, who, if pushed at all, ought to make a sturdy assault on the dual meet record of 9.34, made in 1916 by Overton of Yale...
...formidable group of 68 University and Freshman track men, with the usual retinue of coaches, managers, and trainers, will leave the South Station at 9 o'clock this morning to make their first assault on the Big Three track championships in the Harvard-Princeton University and Freshman track meets, which will run simultaneously in the Palmer Stadium at Princeton tomorrow afternoon...
...following is a list of the victims of the police force's first assault: Lindsley Austin '26, Harlow Bishop '25, L. W. Black '26, R. F. Burke '25, W. P. Dixon '25, H. T. Fisher '25, J. M. Greeley '25, L. W. Grossman '26, N. L. Hughes '25, Abram Minis Jr. '26, R. L. Perley '26, H. M. Priest '25, B. M. Rice '25, Alexis 'de Tarnowsky '26, and W. R. Warren...