Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussed are still fresh in mind. Under the aegis of the Graduate School of Education, two representative bodies of teachers will recapitulate the year's work, will listen to the counsel of some of the most eminent men in academic circles, and then will marshal their knowledge for an assault on those baffling problems which are constantly arising to perplex teachers...
Handicapped by a mid-year examination lay-off, the Crimson fell before an unexpected Eli assault in the two teams' first meeting at New Haven last month. With renewed confidence after trouncing the exalted Indians, the Cantabs are set to wipe out the stain of that defeat tonight...
...Geologists deny that it has any greater significance than a coincidence of geographical sequence. One minister in Vermont, it is said, confidentially revealed to his parishioners that if it isn't a sign of divine irritation over the condition of world politics, then it must be a renewed heavenly assault upon man's original sin. Every one attaches some superstition to the phenomenon, and no one, as far as can be observed, makes a practical fuss over America's flood wave...
When Leftists attacked Teruel they took it by a surprise movement which encircled the town from both flanks. When General Franco counterattacked Teruel he poured his army into a frontal assault and did not take it. Last week Leftist generals used their heads again. Franco's army before Teruel is supplied by a single road running north to Saragossa, parallel to the main Aragon front. Instead of trying to repulse Franco by pouring men into the town, Leftists launched four attacks at four separate points in an attempt to cut this road. If any of the four had succeeded...
...that wastes itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides him to her house at night, slowly recovers his balance only to die in the riots when mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...