Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right side of the line, which crumbled completely before the Princeton assault, was further shifted with Butterworth, letter man for the last two years, replacing Benton at tackle. Other changes in the line-up were Cutler, substituting for Noble at left halfback, and Wadsworth for Allen at fullback...
...Spanish forces advanced up the heights for about a mile and a third; took Morro Viejo (400 ft. high), Malmussi (500 ft.) and Cuervas de Xauen (1,800 ft.). The French made a sudden assault upon the heights of Kifane, captured them, and pushed their line several miles beyond. Then the pinch subsided. There were too many mountains in the jaws of the pincers, for one thing...
Religious conditions in Russia are the best example of the impotency of an absolute dictatorship to strike at the root-feelings of humanity. The heads of the Soviet Government, admitted atheists, have made a determined assault upon the Orthodox Church by suppressive measures and by launching the rival "laving Church." The great mass of the peasantry have quietly gone on worshipping in the same way as before. Now the Government has surrendered to the ex tent of adopting a laissez-faire policy toward religion. In this, as in countless other ways, the stabilizing weight of the great mass...
...matter of the personnel of the negotiators. The operators appointed a conference committee this year that is almost entirely new-the former "big guns" being absent. The miners saw or professed to see in this an intention by the operators to hold their "big guns" back for a final assault. As a result, John L. Lewis, President of the Union Mine Workers, left the conference after the opening session, "called away on business," and did not return. Each side accused the other of insincerity in sending "underlings" as negotiators. Each insisted that its conferees were fully empowered to reach...
...been silenced. Basil M. Manly, LaFollette disciple and mouthpiece, and director of the People's Legislative Service in Washington, last week attempted to revive the old attack on the General Electric Co. as a monopoly in the manufacture and distribution of electric light bulbs. Samuel Untermeyer started the assault with a letter to Mr. Manly on the subject, which the latter made public. The Manhattan lawyer asserted that the General Electric Co. had been allowed to escape prosecution on alleged criminal and civil charges made against it by the Lockwood Committee of the New York Legislature in the course...