Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett won its first game, upsetting Adams 13-0, by breaking up a much vaunted 'Coaster passing attack. The Bunnies, in their turn, tallied twice via the air ways...
...virtue of its strategic location in the city, its huge physical properties, and its universal renown, Harvard has often been involved in political attacks similar to the one which has marked the current campaign in Cambridge. Culminating in an open attack on Harvard's existence as a part of this municipality, such action is at least several steps beyond the traditional point to which differences between town and gown have been carried heretofore. Practically without exception, the vulnerable point in the University's armor seems to be some statement or action by teacher or student which is taken...
...fact, Army airmen need not have been greatly distressed. The civilian net worked perfectly in daytime, when bombers would not normally attack. It also worked well at night. But unsolved was a great problem of night-time defense. Unless pursuit pilots and antiaircraft gunners can see their targets, bombers are safe...
...fans, however, were prepared for the powerhouse offensive that Michigan uncorked. For 55 minutes it blasted Minnesota's theretofore impregnable defense, scoring a touchdown-with unexpected attacks of straightforward, old-fashioned delayed bucks-in the first few minutes of the last quarter. Then, with five minutes left to play, canny Coach Bierman frantically called from the sidelines his only able passer, Harold Van Every, who had been out with a kidney ailment since the first game of the year. Before the astonished spectators knew what it was all about, Minnesota had crossed the goal line and had kicked...
Reactions of Business to this were for the most part grudging acquiescence tempered with considerable confusion which the New York Times best expressed: "It would be odd indeed if an inquiry which began by attacking the evils of monopoly should end by attacking the evils of competition." Meanwhile, TNEC announced that its first attack would begin with hearings on November 14 on the patent situation in the glass industry and the proxy battle over the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry, last spring...