Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Joseph Hodges Choate '52, one of the leading figures in American public life, succumbed to an attack of heart failure at 11.30 Monday night. His sudden death resulted probably indirectly from the strenuous efforts put forth last week to welcome the Allied missions and to promote their complete success...
When the Turks began the attack on Van, they met an armed resistance from the Armenians who were able to obtain weapons of any kind. Bombs were thrown into Van by the Turks, but the Armenian women patrolled the city and rushed up to the bombs before the fuses had burned to the powder, and after extinguishing the flame, used the powder for the shells, which were used against the Turks. After 28 days of continual fighting, the Turks decided that it would be impossible to overcome the Armenian resistance quickly, and on hearing that the Russians were coming...
...hardship in the compulsory education system as Americans know it and submit to it? Upon that system as it is now applied rests the country's safety from internal foes. The time has come to extend it in such a manner that it will protect the nation from external attack. Shall we Americans be less alert in protecting our institutions from foreign enemies than we are in guarding those institutions from ourselves...
There was also a short one-mile race between the first two University shells which the second won by a quarter-length, although it rowed a slightly lower stroke. By the return of D. L. Moody '18, who had been out with an attack of the measles, and of A. Coolidge '17, the first boat took on a more normal appearance than it has shown during the confusion of the last three of four days. F. B. Whitman '19 and R. R. Brown '17 were shifted to their old positions at 2 and 6; Coolidge took his former position...
...much better play, from the dramatic point of view, perhaps the best of the four. "A Transfer of Property," by Mark A. Reed, is a satire on up-to-date religious fanaticism, as "The Harbour of Lost Ships" is of the old-fashioned type. It is an attack on Christian Science, and is on the whole as unskillfully constructed as it is admirably acted. Moreover, it makes the mistake common in plays of its type of failing to give a fair show to both sides of the question. "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, Jr., is a play...