Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian who mastered life, and then frittered it away, by emulating a character in Balzac-a rebuffed suitor who paused on the threshold, returned to the assault...
...ninth assault on Meredith's quarter mile mark will be made on May 28 and 29 at the Harvard Stadium, and that golden anniversary meet will round out just half a hundred I.C.A.A.A.A. 440 yard races. I have been asked whether I think Meredith's record can be broken. My reply is "Yes, but" And the "but" is that the man to break the record must be a sound 10 second sprinter...
John Corsey grew up the tensest little aristocrat of all, with passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
...Republican glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
Barricaded from assault by means of membership in the League and negotiation outside of it, secured by a host of expressions of political and industrial amity, Belgium seems to have reconstructed what M. Vandevelde calls "her shattered international status". Yet the very multiplicity of guarantees reveals that post-war diplomacy in Europe is very much a heritage from prewar days; and suggests that this is likely to be so until the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Locarno treaties attain the prestige of a much longer life...