Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South goal posts went down swiftly before a concerted rush of enthusiastic Cornell supporters who were so intent on their purpose that they started their attack before the game ended...
After the first play from scrimmage, when Ithacan Baker broke away to jaunt 74 yards to score on a perfect reverse through the weak side, the game gave evidence of being a rout. Harvard had to punt right away, and the Cornell attack functioned again. It had to be stopped twice, but twice it was stopped, and from there on, the Crimson showed they are a team to be reckoned with by all future opponents...
...Construction of a navy powerful enough to defend both coasts at once against attack by any coalition of powers...
...drooped their necks, banged their heads against the ground, tried to run on their sides, collapsed on the turf. In Massachusetts alone 200 horses died, victims of equine encephalomyelitis. Entirely different are the eastern and western varieties of this disease, although both are caused by viruses which attack the brain and spinal cord, produce inflammation, high fever, and in some localities 100% mortality. Last spring Dr. Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff of Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. and Dr. Joseph Willis Beard of Duke University prepared vaccines from chicken embryos which conferred immunity against both types of the disease...
...first air raids may not be on Central London at all but on the traffic jams around it," warns Professor Haldane. "In Spain, at any rate, the German airmen seem to prefer to attack concentrated traffic, whether on wheel or on foot, rather than to bomb buildings, when they have the choice. ... In Barcelona one dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than...